Speculative Futures: A Temporal World is a site-specific evolving installation that brings together hybrid sculptures, light, shadow, and human presence to explore how past, present, and speculative futures coexist.

The sculptural beings, created from discarded domestic and industrial objects that are wrapped, woven and bound with thread and tape, feel alive, held together, rather than resolved. They are created from materials that are accessible, bar stools, kitchen colanders, prescription pill bottles, sometimes visible, sometimes not. The gallery becomes an immersive environment, where visitors walk among the sculptures and are woven into their world.

This new world, created at MAPSpace during Chason-Sokol’s residency and populated by hybrid beings, embodies past, present, and future. Video captures the process and is projected onto the gallery walls, reflecting the shifting realities of the space. As these cyborg beings travel to other public spaces, imagined places come into being, created through the connection of sculpture, human presence, and moving image.

Bio

Martha Chason-Sokol is an interdisciplinary artist working between studio and public life. She builds gestural figural sculptures from discarded domestic and industrial objects and places them in site-specific installations to create accessible participatory art in community spaces. Chason-Sokol binds the past into new, speculative futures using tape, thread, and video. Past, present and futures merge both through the embodied hybrid creatures and the human presence captured in person and on video.

Chason-Sokol is an associate member of Kingston Gallery, and Chair of the Everett Cultural Council. She has exhibited at the Boston Sculptors Gallery, the Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Fitchburg Art Museum, among others. Chason-Sokol holds a Bachelor’s degree from Brandeis University and a Master of Fine Arts from Lesley University College of Art and Design.

After moving to Everett, MA. in June 2020, Chason-Sokol became aware that there was no designated art space in the city. Having taught for over 30 years in non-traditional settings Chason-Sokol envisioned a community art space that would provide the joy and healing of creative art experiences. She founded Art Lab Everett in 2021, and  since then ALE has offered arts opportunities to residents of Everett and the neighboring towns regardless of ability to pay. 

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