Simone Klein, often known as Simo, was born in Providence, RI, and lives in Brooklyn, NY. Simo makes sculptures and performances, primarily as a poet. She is interested in spiritual mechanisms, improvisation, and bodywork.
2025, dimensions vary
installation in grain silo
found objects, silver wire, epoxy cement, acrylic paint, oil pastel
silverware tray chicken feeder iron stubs brick pieces plastic shelving epoxy putty bulb tractor light fake antlers pvc piping pool noodle hose head two pronged bale hook ram horn squidgee metal plate iron stub oil canister piping splitter lawn mower motor tree section light caps hose foam floor tile swiffer mop cap cage for light saw case metal spring tractor steering wheel concrete plastic ring wooden bead acrylic spring metal connector wood plank thermostat cover steering wheel piping splitter wooden plank christmas ornaments wooden packaging swimming pool face plate polywoven sand bag thermal massage bath mat
DESCRIPTION
I’ve been growing food, and learning from the land at small community farms and communal living projects since I was a child. This body of work was made at the queer land project, Zumwalt Acres, during an artist residency. I worked in a trailer studio part-time and with the farm team part-time.
“The separation between nature and society, between human and thing, is a modern fiction. Tools and technologies are never just material: they are hybrids, simultaneously natural, social, and symbolic. They circulate in networks where matter and meaning cannot be disentangled.” - Bruno Latour, We Have Never Been Modern (1991).
performance practice
Processing wet hay to grow mushroomsDaily lineStudioPre-install