Gozié Ojini (b. 1995, Los Angeles) is an artist working primarily in sculpture and installation. His works employ careful gestures with found objects to explore ideas about disembodied labor, non-performance, and the alignment of object and subject. Gozie’s practice is a meditation on objects’ formal qualities, their historical significance, their material specificity, the context in which they become available as objects, and their emotional resonance. Working within these systems of value and expectation related to objects, Gozie finds remnants of human touch, ergonomics, unfulfilled aspiration, and racial bias. Gozie uses gestures like cutting, re/disassembly, and casting as generative modes to look inside, to omit, to edit, to exchange, to dissect, and to reimagine the objects he finds. This is an effort to articulate the conditions of the world from a Black American subjecthood and perform experiments that challenge those conditions.