Elias Sime at James Cohan Gallery

Addis Ababa-based artist Elias Sime continues to turn discarded electronics into compositions that can suggest aerial maps or abstracted landscapes in his latest show at Chelsea’s James Cohan Gallery.  Computers made in China, sold in the US and discarded in Ethiopia make their way into artworks that implicitly question resource distribution and rampant consumption.  (On view through June 29th.)

Elias Sime, detail of Tightrope: Noiseless 18, reclaimed electrical wires and components on panel, 100 ¼ x 63 ¼ inches, 2019.