Enrichment 2025
Garner Arts Center
Building #35, Ned Harris Gallery
GARNER Historic District
55 West Railroad Avenue
Garnerville, NY 10923 New York
Enrichment by Jo Yarrington, with accompanying sound and electronics by composer and sound artist, John Morton, on view at the Ned Harris Gallery at Building 35. The exhibition is comprised of sequential, interrelated installations. It invites visitors to explore the dual nature of technological advancement, displaying both its seductive beauty and its latent dangers through a series of interactive, visitor-activated installations.
Exploring the resonant frequencies between uranium enrichment and radioactive decay, Enrichment offers a seductive and thought-provoking visitor experience that probes the complex impact of technology and science on human lives and the environment.
Upon entering Enrichment, viewers are greeted by an antique display cabinet positioned on its side, housing an array of Uranium spheres spilling out onto the floor. In this same room, Uranotype photograms document fragments of tin cans used by miners during the 1940s and 50s, collected from abandoned Uranium mines in Utah. Further into the gallery, along each side of eye-level sheves in a connecting corridor are orbs displayed on metal shelves reminiscent of a science lab. Each orb contains manipulated imagery sourced from archival atomic bomb documentation and personal archives, transforming into miniature projection devices that evoke both memory and consequence.
The final component in this series of connected installations is composed of a range of tear-shaped glass vessels, forming a circle over sand mixed with plastic and debris. Activated by motion, Geiger counter clicks trigger sound and light, casting visitors as witnesses to the aftermath of unseen forces.
Jo Yarrington received a 2025 “Support for Artists” grant in the field of Visual Arts from the New York State Council on the Arts to support the presentation of Enrichment at GARNER Arts Center.
