Anya Gallaccio @ Thomas Dane

Anya Gallaccio presents Beautiful Minds, 2015. A giant 3D clay printer, occupies the entire gallery space and over the course of the exhibition will  be actively printing a scaled effigy of a mountain (to be precise Devil’s Tower, Wyoming, a sacred place for Native Americans). The machine, built by the artist in collaboration with a group of her recent graduates from UC San Diego, usurps recent advances in mechanical technology, subverting the very precise process of 3D printing by forcing the approximate and unreliable material of a slip of clay through it.