Document is delighted to present Artifact unidentified, a two-person exhibition of recent sculptural works by Kiah Celeste and Gordon Hall. Opening on September 12, the exhibition will remain on view through November 1, 2025.

Kiah Celeste’s practice is made up of materials and objects gleaned from urban and industrial contexts, repurposed and combined in sculptures and installations with a post-minimalist bend. Her latest body of work takes on a pared down, yet striking, form: monochromatic pieces of spandex, stretched in poplar frames and installed on the gallery’s walls, playfully incorporate a set of found materials. Extending well beyond the frame to rest on the floor, a large piece of Corian towers within Distent. In Skydrool, a used paint bucket emerges from the center of another frame. Little apple of paradise’s frayed bungee cord maintains tension between a cream field of fabric and glass that rests against the floor. Installed bridging a corner, Four shores’ frames hold plastic cords in tension.

Gordon Hall’s sculptures often take the form of pieces of furniture or domestic objects, meticulously reproduced in materials such as cast concrete, wood, or brass. These ambiguously functional works are often employed by performing bodies in Hall’s performances. The works on view in Artifact unidentified represent a body of work made for the recent exhibition at ICA Boston, Believers: artists and the shakers. Taking cues from artifacts in the Shaker Museum’s collection of over 18,000 objects, sometimes joining discrete elements or extending their dimensions, Hall also introduces diligent interventions such as the steel nails fixed to the underside of Rocker or coloring Knob Weight with red pencil.