Public Land Gallery is pleased to present Cella Costanza: End User, an exhibition featuring new paintings and ceramic sculptures that explore survival, transformation, and the absurdity of daily existence. Costanza’s work expresses the desperation and tenderness necessary to endure in a collapsing world. Her practice navigates the tension between humor and despair, weaving together sculpture and painting to examine the contradictions of daily life.

Like an archeologist documenting a lost civilization—or one yet to emerge—she unearths its deities, habits, and rituals, piecing together an existence at the edge of imagination and reality. In this speculative world, industrial debris becomes sacred, tires inscribe forgotten stories, and pollination is a communal ritual performed with oversized toothbrushes. Her paintings depict a mythic, yet absurd reimagining of daily survival, emphasizing both the ingenuity and futility of human actions.

Through a process of excavation and reconstruction, Costanza’s paintings and sculptures engage in a continuous dialogue, blurring the boundaries between material reality and myth. Wheels, flip-flops, and relics of contemporary culture become symbols of both progress and decay, merging history with speculation. The tire—interchangeable with a stamp, a cog, or a sun—embodies industrialization, failure, repetition, and the cyclical nature of time.

Looking to ancient myths, deities, and folk traditions, Costanza wrestles with our own absurd present. Her work embraces the dark humor and horror of living in this time, where the ridiculous and the tragic are inseparable.