American-born sculptor, essayist and poet Jimmie Durham wryly undermines the stability and structure of belief and ideology. Durham’s work resists staking claim to a single narrative or idea in favor of creating conditions for action, interruption, and disturbance, a value that runs through both his artwork and in life (as an American Indian Movement activist in the 1970s). Whether working with natural objects like rocks and fossils or man-made ones such as the single-engine airplane, Durham makes use of things from the physical world in an effort to evidence and upset a state of inertia or the status quo.
