NADA New York 2025

Laura Moore’s practice has had a lengthy engagement with defining issues of our time: technological obsolescence, the consume/waste economy and of course, climate change. Over the last 15 years, she has garnered attention in Canada and across Europe for her strikingly executed, hand-carved stone sculptures of obsolete technology. Outdated digital devices (ie. computer monitors, cell phones) salvaged from the streets of Toronto are her primary source materials. As such, her practice performs a reversal of fortune: monumentalizing in stone what was once tossed to the curbside. During the pandemic her work took a new direction; she gutted these same electronics of their printed circuit boards (PCBs) and turned to the act of quilt-making to render them as large-scale textile assemblages. The textile material is itself scavenged from a variety of sources, further underscoring the politics of sustainability and waste-reduction that is the core of her practice.