Alekz Thoms is a genderfluid multidisciplinary found object artist & griever from the U.S. devoted to Nothing (the Poetics of) & the mundane. Their practice is collage based, with an expansive personal definition of collage encompassing retrieval, collection, happenstance, montage, assemblage, citation, aleatory, redaction, association, recollection, & fabulation. Just as everything is Nothing, everything is collage.

Their art is preoccupied with remembering, or at the very least, meticulously noticing & stewarding of all of the lost & left Nothings. Footnoting the exhibition with a zine of its creation, photographing every discarded glove, cataloging every lost object they pass, collecting bookmarks left in suspended use in donated books, recollecting what their late mother left & left behind, digging through their own cavern of memory; they know that it's the Nothings that make up the foundation of our lives.

Using family archive photos, photos found on the sidewalk & in books, ephemera of their own & that scattered in the streets, secondhand magazines, notes (their own & strangers'), scanographs of their environment, they stack Nothings top to toe until they become an undeniable Something. the things she left behind are replicated in clay from memory. The process is the art just as much as the installed work is. Over & over, the material asserts its agency; failure by failure, an art practice emerges.