Courtesy of the artist and Callicoon Fine Arts

Harry Dodge’s sculptures are juicy and dripping. A candy store full of neon colors, silicon glaciers and stalactites, prompting dildos. His series Works of Love consists of sculptures in which organic and mechanical form entangle. Dodge speculates that love isn’t just about romance or Eros between people, but about universe-wide mutual dependence. Dodge’s affection for objects brings things to life. Because of the distinction between people and objects, affection for them is often considered a fetish, rather than an active relation. But why should we assume that human, animal, and thing are distinct from each other, when energy – love? – is actually exchanged? In Het Hem, Dodge’s sculptures also echo with Zoe William's ceramic cornucopia. In paintings, abundance has often been portrayed as something you can possess. A fruit basket against an empty background, a stylized pose, portrayed without any social context. The works of Dodge and Williams interrogate how to depict abundance and plenty, without reproducing a history of exploitation, theft, and exclusion.