ALEXANDER EDWARDS is a multidisciplinary artist whose work examines how material systems of preservation and obsolescence register survival, erosion, and time. Working across sculpture and installation, Edwards employs perishable matter and discarded materials like spices, e-waste, wood, and obsolete technologies, to produce sculptural forms that operate as contemporary reliquaries. These works reconfigure how value and meaning persist within materials marked by use, obsolescence, and neglect, positioning decay not as loss, but as a record.

Grounded in still-life traditions, memento mori, and the aesthetics of entropy, Edwards’ practice situates rituals of preservation within a contemporary landscape defined by technological excess and material exhaustion. Through strategies of accumulation, containment, and restraint, his sculptures function as quiet archives—holding bodily presence, temporal instability, and the tension between impermanence and endurance. Shifting between intimate scale and architectural weight, the work resists sentimentality and nostalgia, instead foregrounding fragility as a structural condition of biological, social, and technological systems.

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