Endless, 2026, installation detail natural latex
Endless, 2026, natural latex, detail
Endless, 2026, natural latex, installation detail
Endless, 2026, natural latex
Endless consists of hollow latex feet dispersed across the floor in a shifting field of fragmented bodies and traces of passage. Cast from the artist’s own feet, the translucent forms hover between presence and absence, vulnerability and disappearance.
Individually isolated yet collectively connected, the work reflects on migration not as a singular event, but as an ongoing human condition shaped by displacement, precarity, labor, survival, and the search for belonging. Born in Northern England, in a town marked by flooding, economic decline, and generational migration, Sanders later moved across Canada and the United States with her family in search of work and stability. These experiences of movement, instability, and impermanence continue to shape her understanding of place, borders, and fragile systems of belonging.
Natural latex, a material derived from trees and historically entangled with colonial trade, extraction, and labor, becomes central to the work’s meaning. Skin-like and unstable, it slowly changes over time, darkening, hardening, and deteriorating. Its physical transformation mirrors the vulnerability of displaced bodies and the unstable conditions surrounding migration itself.
Rather than illustrating a single narrative, Endless holds space for the countless lives moving through political, social, and environmental systems that often fail to fully recognize their humanity.