Sarah Casey: Negative Mass Balance at the Henry Moore Institute

Maja Lorkowska, Exhibitions Editor

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Sarah Casey: Negative Mass Balance

4 April-22 June 2025
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04 Apr 2025
10:00 am-5:00 pm
05 Apr 2025
10:00 am-5:00 pm
06 Apr 2025
10:00 am-5:00 pm
07 Apr 2025
10:00 am-5:00 pm
08 Apr 2025
10:00 am-5:00 pm

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Henry Moore Institute presents Sarah Casey: Negative Mass Balance, a new exhibition inspired by objects emerging from melting ice in the Swiss Alps.

Artist Sarah Casey uses glacial archaeology as a starting point for delicate drawings and paper sculptures. The idea that new things emerge from the loss of ice is what inspired Casey to create the centrepiece of the show: Emergency! What Was Is (2024–25), consisting of two translucent drawings on waxed paper. These large-scale pieces hang floor to ceiling and are ‘drawn’ using the process of perforation – thousands of tiny holes piercing the paper form outlines of glacial artefacts. Although the shape shows a specific subject, the light coming through makes the image shift and change as we move through the gallery. The works are also made using glacial flour – a fine sediment left behind by glaciers as they melt.

You’ll also find Ice Watch (2023), tiny glass watch faces etched with glacial landscapes, and Ablations (2023) – risograph prints documenting Casey’s experiments with exposing wax drawings to sunlight in alpine environments.

Sarah Casey: Negative Mass Balance presents works that are as beautifully fragile as the artefacts they’re inspired by.

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