Artist statement + bio
Ali Raizin is a queer artist and designer, raised in Chicago and based in San Francisco since 2012. She has exhibited at several gallery shows across San Francisco and her installation piece, Forever Fog, debuted in Detroit and has since been shown in three different site-specific installations across San Francisco and Oakland.
Her interdisciplinary, process-based art is an active response to the overwhelming reality of ecological loss. Ali’s body of work spans print, video, sound, sculpture and scent, creating moments to confront and process the pre-traumatic stress of life during climate collapse.
Ali’s art utilizes recurring organic forms across mediums. The construction process of her work includes repetitive and meditative movements, creating space for solo and collaborative reflection.
Selected Work
Forever Fog
I wanted to tell you that I am sorry juxtaposes the writing of climate activist/therapist Stuart Capstick over images and sounds of nature. His words—from a speculative letter written to his children in the near future—give an acute retelling of what it feels like to live at this moment, in a time of pre-traumatic climate stress. The text hangs heavy over white noise, bird sounds, and lush images of the outdoors.
The Treachery of Words
I wanted to tell you that I am sorry juxtaposes the writing of climate activist/therapist Stuart Capstick over images and sounds of nature. His words—from a speculative letter written to his children in the near future—give an acute retelling of what it feels like to live at this moment, in a time of pre-traumatic climate stress. The text hangs heavy over white noise, bird sounds, and lush images of the outdoors.