Sculpture Month Houston 2025

My visit to this art exhibition and the photos I took.

"Re-Figurations"
at the Site Gallery in The Silos, part of Sawyer Yards
Houston, TX
October 4 – November 22, 2025.

Robert Boyd at his blog "The Great God Pan is Dead" on Nov. 3, 2025:

Sculpture Month Houston is a festival devoted to sculpture, installations, and performance art held every autumn since 2016. It is located in one of the weirdest venues for displaying art in Houston, The Silos. The silos were 34 rice silos, built in 1960 for the Mahatma/Success company [rice milling and marketing]....

Silos were a part of industrial-scale agriculture. Grain silos are tall, narrow cylinders made of concrete for gathering and storing cereal grains between harvest and consumption. Why the Mahatma/Success silos stopped being used to store rice, I don’t know. But the buildings in the vicinity of the silos slowly started being converted into art studios, and at some point in the past decade, someone decided against all common sense that these tiny tubular rooms would be good places to display art.

Boyd: Laurent combines natural objects with a high tech construct in the installation Trip to Mars. Except for the fact that in no culture would these janky rockets be identified as “high tech.” The figures inside the transparent cylinders in the middle of the rockets are carved to resemble tribal artifacts.

Boyd: The color of the ceramic material matches the concrete walls of the silo very well, and the streaky, somewhat dirty appearance of the two figures gives them a weathered look appropriate for this well-used piece of industrial architecture. Both the Silos and The Birth of Man, The Death of Man give hints of a distant history—ancient statues dug up in a farmer’s field reminding one of a classical past.