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In Clara Varas’ latest exhibition Day In, Day Out she uses detritus from her surroundings to create a visual understanding of the intersectionality of the abject landscape. Marine, metal, and “fashion” are industries that surround the artist’s studio. This is the abject landscape—it is blighted, culturally rich, highly textured and layered, somehow forgotten but completely essential. Here, ‘home’ includes it’s displacement and who it makes someone. Time bears down on all objects used in the compositions. The body is a machine working in tandem and dependent on all that which was once not …