# Sarah Frost

## Arsenal

Invested in the life and history of everyday objects, Sarah Frost creates large-scale installations and sculptures using materials as diverse as computer keyboards, Bundt pans, and toilet-seat covers. Highlighting the forgotten in an object-driven culture, Frost explores our desire for the personal through cold masses of soon-to-be-obsolete products. For Frost, these found forms often become the material for built environments—such as an immense wall constructed of yellowing domestic appliances—and she creates her textures from the found, the discarded, the plastic, and the handmade.

For the *Great Rivers Biennial 2010* exhibition, Frost brings her simultaneous interests in the finely crafted and the readymade to the fore in a new, monumental installation in the galleries. Recently, Frost has focused her attention and absorbed into her practice an online community of young boys who self-publish instructional YouTube videos for making elaborate paper guns. Learning this new craft, Frost amasses a comprehensive arsenal—from handguns to the more elaborate, Halo inspired Uzis—to create a suspended paper cloud in the museum. Taking cues from the Contemporary's architecture, and her interest in immersive environment, Frost presents a mammoth paper gauntlet, alongside YouTube video stills, to create an exhibition that reveals the found and the crafted, a community of sculptors, and a ubiquitous, ominous culture of war.