Jedediah Caesar*

Lot #13
Wunderjammer (white), 2019
Epoxy, sand, stone, shell
4 x 4 x 6 in.
Courtesy of the artist

About the Artwork

Jedediah Caesar (Headlands Artist in Residence ‘16) is an artist, educator, and curator whose work explores landscapes as accumulations of resources and negotiations, and how those negotiations are shaped within apparatuses of spectacle and power. Wunderjammer is an open edition of works made in response to Caesar’s initial research at votive sites in Italy, particularly the physical and conceptual entanglement of the ex-voto—an object offered in gratitude to a divinity—and its site. Comparing the votive site to the Wunderkammer, or cabinet of curiosities, Caesar considers historical systems of display that diverge in how they inscribe hierarchies of power in collections. Exchanging the Cartesian grid of the cabinet for an object that can be held in the hand complicates the act of viewing, highlighting the work’s mobile and meditative aspects as one is drawn into an interior space—that of the object, and of oneself. Caesar has had solo exhibitions at the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and Oakland Museum of California Art, among others. His work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions, including the 2008 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Retail Value: $4,500