Milena Naef: Three Times Spanning

The small hollow carved into this sculpture is a perfect fit for Milena Naef's body: a subtle trace of her fleeting presence here. Born to a lineage of Swiss stone carvers, she inserts herself into her family's story of craftsmanship. For Ground/work 2025, she has created her most ambitious work to date: two slabs intersecting one another and with a fallen tree salvaged from the Clark's grounds. The stone was sourced from Cristallina, Switzerland's only marble quarry, and the complex geometry of the sculpture—especially the angled joint that holds the work together—pays tribute to the traditional skills of masonry. The work is a conversation between the artist, her materials, and the site.

Ground/work 2025—Milena Naef

Milena Naef (b.1990, Germany) discusses Three Times Spanning, a marble sculpture that incorporates negative spaces for a fallen tree and for her own body, merging rock and absence to explore the choreography between bodies and environments rooted in her lineage of stone carving.