Bret Slater

Regen

2021

What is a regen?“A forced regen occurs when soot builds up inside the diesel particulate fi lter (DPF) to the point that the vehicle is no longer operable. When this happens, a driver has to pull over and initiate a self-cleaning process that can take up to 40 minutes—valuable time that could have been spent on the road.”-“How to Reduce Forced Regen Hassles,” Ron Jessen/cenex.com

Regen, Bret Slater’s new body of work, is a return to using the formal language of industrial objects, as well as the relationships between one object and another. The vast metropolitan New York City’s environment surrounding the artist every day served as a catalyst for this new body of work.

Slater states: when I see a form that captivates me, be it that of well-designed architecture, automobiles, machinery, jury-rigged structures, or makeshift objects, I feel truly connected to both myself as well as something bigger, or at least, something pertining to a story or source that is other than mine, with its own history