About the program
The Society for Care and Maintenance approaches care as a practiced, embodied, and conflicted act. The work began as a daily ritual of collecting shattered tempered glass from city streets after damage. Rather than treating these sites as spectacle or crisis, the project tends to what remains: fragments that must be stewarded.
Through acts of sorting, mapping, transferring, embedding, and restraint, SCAM reframes care as a form of labor that is both calming and controlling, visible yet unacknowledged. The materials are not repaired or redeemed; they are held in suspension, positioned in ways that register touch, pressure, and time.
Over the duration of the exhibition, thousands of glass fragments are laid by hand in an ordered, reflective field that is continuously maintained and ultimately swept away at the closing, framing care as a condition shaped by time, attention, and restraint.
Schedule:
January 25 | Open
Sundays, 12:00 – 5:00 pm | Viewing (glass assembly)
February 26, 6:00 – 8:00 pm | Closing event (sweeping)