"Salut, Ça va, c'est moi opened this week at Friedman Benda, filling the gallery with the warm glow of Carmen D'Apollonio's newest illuminated sculptures. For this solo show, the Swiss-born, Los Angeles-based artist dots the space with playful artworks of handmade clay and blown glass, each of which shows either a drooping gesture or the imprint of the human hand."
"Carmen D'Apollonio's new work, currently on view at Friedman Benda, pushes further into material experimentation. The artist's ceramic bases still bear the slight irregularities of hand-building, but this exhibition introduces sculpted glass shades that catch and scatter light in unexpected patterns. It was noted at the gallery that each glass element required custom molds and weeks of slow cooling, a process that gives the finished pieces their distinctive clarity and weight."
Salut, Ça va, c'est moi fills Friedman Benda with illuminated sculptures made from handmade clay and blown glass. Ceramic bases retain hand-built irregularities while new sculpted glass shades catch and scatter light through custom molds and slow cooling, producing clarity and weight. Lamps lean, sprawl, and hover, casting shifting reflections across concrete floors and encouraging intimate, slow looking. Pieces such as 'Again I go unnoticed' and 'It's All a Big Mystery' gesture like breathing and refract light into soft edges that pull the eye beyond each fixture. The exhibition runs September 11–October 16, 2025.
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