ICOSA Collective presents the closing reception and artist talk for "In the Absence of Ideal Conditions," a collaborative exhibition of sculptures, video, and installation between multi-disciplinary artists Elaine I-Ling Shen and Alyssa Taylor Wendt.

Using rudimentary materials and working together for the first time, their intuitive exploration into process, matter and time reveals themes of creation, existence, primordial beginnings, divination, deterioration and the notion of eternal recurrence. Much of their joint work concerns the difficulty in distinguishing between states of decline and evolution, along with the tension created by that ambiguity.