Where are you going? Where are you coming from? What are you heading for? These are totally useless questions.

– A Thousand Plateaus by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari

A Thousand Plateaus presents new works by ten emerging artists, all working independently and also as an interwoven cohort that graduated together from Yale’s MFA Sculpture Class of 2024. Each artist uniquely responds to the tensions and uncertainties of our time, while simultaneously exploring a shared fascination and hope for the regenerative potential of collapse; the dream that something beautiful can rise from the ashes. 

This collective search for meaning in an increasingly chaotic world is shaped by an awareness that there is no order or predictability with how life unfolds. The artists’ explorations generally have no clear beginnings or ends, instead starting in the middle, between things, where everything is still fluid and interconnected while pushing out towards the edges.

All of the artists feel aligned in attempting to sift through and process the world’s many tangled problems, each intent on making sense of it all in order to find a more sustainable path forward. Is it possible to understand our own being in terms of becoming? Can we rid ourselves of the rules that dictate how and what life is in order to better it? Perhaps if we function together as a unified body that is untethered to traditional systems and hierarchies. In this state, we may be able to experience all of the true connections and beauty the world has to offer.