Aria Dean’s (b. 1993) vigorous practice is characterized by a playful and probing dialogue with representational systems. Her sculptures, installations, videos and essays unsettle the status, operations, and motives of the art object—emphasizing dispossession and circulation over embellished meaning.

Facts Worth Knowing is Dean’s second solo exhibition at Château Shatto and the inaugural exhibition at the gallery’s new space on Western Avenue. In her first solo exhibition composed entirely of sculpture, Dean extends her approach to the medium developed in recent years, whereby digital forms are manufactured in—or extracted from—computer programs and then subjected to degrees of distortion. Made physical through inventive fabrication methods, Dean’s sculptures evidence an impossible material event. The works call to the entwinement of temporality and matter and conjure the interdependency between the inert materials that give sculpture form and the dynamics that conceive of it.