BRANDON NDIFE

Brandon Ndife composes sculptures by assembling forms of furniture, domestic objects, and elements of the natural world. Through hand-building, painting, and casting in synthetic resin or polyurethane foam, Ndife creates meticulous replicas that keep the readymade tradition at a subtle remove. Expectant with ripening and rot, the works appear like relics unearthed from a distant past or envoys of a dystopian future. Ndife is drawn to domestic items, in part, for their capacity to index American life under capitalism—wrought with racial, class, and now ecological disparities in all that we touch. In his composites, wild growth seems poised to overtake the built environment, with all its structural exclusions. For him, the works “operate as portals that get us thinking about objects that are larger than our systems, larger than ourselves.”