Jocelyn de Lange





instagram: @gutsslutt
jocydelange@gmail.com

Jocelyn is an interdisciplinary artist working in Minneapolis,MN with an investiagtive approach in exploring themes of identity, trauma and the social structures which compose our collective reality. Through an integration of experimental photography techniques and found object based sculpture, her work advocates for the urgency of interconnectedness in a post human world. She is currently working towards a bachelor of fine arts degree in sculpture at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. 

This website functions as the site of both written and visual documentation of inquiry for sculpture/photo works as they overlap and inform eachother in practice.









Education
BFA, Sculpture

Minneapolis College of Art and Design

May 20th, 2026




Exhibitions and Publications
  • Sculpture- ACME Paradox group show, January 24th, 2025
  • Sculpture- Made at Mcad 2024 Exhibition, Main gallery, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN
  • Mixed media works and writing published in Highly Favored Magazine issue 1, vol. 1, November 2022


statement and inquiries I'm curious about the overall patterns and tendencies of relation between people and exploring these semi ephemeral social forces through the inherent presence of interaction found in utilizing garbage and found objects as material. How these objects come to overlap and intertwine with each other is impossible to fully pre determine and most of the time inspiration comes directly from encounters with garbage/materials themselves. I enjoy the opportunity to let the unknown guide me in assembling form, as this allows me to play with, understand and redefine the relationship I or others have with a material or structure as well as its pre-existing contextual relations. 

In connection to the garbage, we as workers under capitalism are treated with the same disposability. Our inescapable role as parts in the economic machine, bound to the by-product and waste of our consumerism despite this being our means for survival. Working with garbage as material to me feels like a continuation of contemplating the role of human interaction and connection. The non-biodegradable aspect of the garbage I collect represents the physical impacts of social interactions and exchanges. I play with agency in questioning the function of objects outside of their original context as well as disrupt notions of value in what constitutes garbage and waste.

Growing up alongside the iphone we as a generation have witnessed first hand, humanities increasing dependence on technology. I see the value and meaning of interaction endlessly contorted through digital culture, usually in favor of exploitative capital gains but disguised as ‘real’ happiness through status. What has become clear to me in recent years is the importance of meeting the basic human need for connection and how dependency occurs instead when the connection is not sustainable but rather extractive and exploitative like the foundations of our country. 

We are not parts to a machine despite society's efforts to sneakily shape our identities accordingly but rather individual pieces to a collective puzzle. We are always recomposing our sense of self in relation to others and the world around us as it is an ever changing thing.



Skills and Experience





Sculptural/site based





























Photography

Fabrication (Plastic/Metal/Wood/Foam/Plaster/ Castables/Glass/Stone/Solid Surface/Textiles) • Installation •  Performance Art • Interactive/Experimental Techniques • Kinetic Sculpture • Ceramics • Metal/Plastic Casting • Metalworking (Cutting/Forming/Welding)• Patinas • Flexible Mold Casting  • Mold Making  • Electric Art • Electrical Wiring • Organic/Mechanized Motion Systems • Concept Design • Conceptual Diagramming • Documentation • Presentation Techniques • Assemblage 


Tools/Equipment 

  • Hand Tools 
  • MIG/TIG Welders 
  • Power Tools 
  • wood working
  • soldering





Chemical Recipes • Chemigrams• Cyanotypes • Darkroom Processes/Experimental • Digital/Analog Photography •Digital Printing • Digital Scanning • Documentary Photography • Event Photography • Film Processing (Black&white) • Lighting (Studio Set/ Portrait/Architectural/Electronic Flash/ Continuous) • Non-Camera Image Making • Silver Gelatin Printing • Photo Editing/Retouching • Photo Book Production • Artist book production • Portraiture • Studio Photography 

Tools/ Equipment 
  • 35mm Film 
  • Roll Film 
  • DSLRs 
  • Large Format Cameras
  • Lightroom 
  • Photoshop















Last Updated 24.10.31

















Portfolio















1. Exploration of Red
sculpture and photo documentations

  • Project stemming from my own kind of obsessive compulsion i’ve been having to engage with the color red 
  • Trying to trace a history of humans relationship to red and the various ways we as a species have utilized its power to evoke a physiological response in us since the beginning of time 
  • Exploring organic and industrial notions of bodily through red, in a post human world, and a desire to embrace feeling caught in the tension of harm and healing 
  • Play with seemingly opposing forces embodied in the color red, love/hate, attraction/repulsion, joy/anger
  • Red as a means of agency in the pursuit of identity
  • And How we as conscious flesh beings are bound to the production of meaning as a means for being able to function









2. Techtile


‘Post human’?
  • working with the canvas background/base as a form of ‘screen’ where the texture of interaction is always present
  • To power it requires human hand and monitoring or it will tangle/break/ignite

Continued exploration into the way machine parts/tech can mimic human qualities and provoke emotional responses 
  • The ways in which systems mechanical, bodily and social converge and the dissemination of ideas which composes and spreads through digital culture 


Kinetic Experiments


   1. ‘self tangling object’


found materials
hand powered by turning hanger piece









  2. 1-800 24/7

                                

      ceramic cast of mask combined with disassembled                                                         rotary phone and other scrap objects/found                                                             garbage
             
at this time, being influenced by cyberpunk, cyborgs, robotic/digitized appendages and the mimicry of human characteristics/consciousness with machine parts/tech










3. The amalgamation of Joe Syverson, 2025




Styrofoam mannequin head, vinyl plate, human hair (from artist head), servo wiring

The Amalgamation of Joe syverson is a sculptural response made after my encounter with a contact book filled with lists, notes and a calendar dating from 1999 and per noted on his block buster card in the back belonging to a Joseph M. Syverson. It was surprisingly easy to find and identify this man online with only having the blockbuster card and checks for his name. I’ve spent a lot of time flipping through the pages over and over in the last 6 months since I found it. Im always hoping to find something I hadnt noticed before because it usually seems to happen the more time you spend meticulously combing this object. I love noticing all the details of the human mind and touch preserved within the pages and each written gesture. Eventually I hope to talk or write to him and see if he would be willing to humor me and answer my questions about what he was up to in minneapolis in 1999 but im fearful of the possible dissapointment in his rejection. Regardless its been interesting to observe within myself the way curiosity can shape into attachment to this semi fictional headspace of Joe Syverson.



4. Womb Hole, 2025
found objects/garbage, including tire, pantyhose, blinds, metal framework

3ft x 3ft x 6ft


  • Cyclical nature of consumerism and waste 
  • female bodies as allegory for the body of earth and the way the female body can have the ability to birth life yet this has been entirely manipulated to uphold societal expectations of them producing mens babies and care for them like a machine
  • Contemplating the endless, repetitive work and effort involved in dismantling the patriarchy/capitalism and the choice to just let it fuck you blindly instead
  • What is sacred any more when we continue to rebirth our collectively contorted consciousness and how do we learn to heal from inside the womb of existenc?




5.
(Untitled) chemigram install #2, 2025


Chemigram photo process, steel ornamentation, packing material

6ft x 4ft 


















6. (untitled) chemigram install #1, December 2024


  • Chemigrams- uncertainty, lack of controlled variables, experimental, testing different substances, pressing the photo paper on parts of my body that would affect how marks were then made on it with the developer and fix. 
  • Important for me as a photographer - Making work using the female body to create photos in a way that does not involve actually placing my body as subject to be photographed in front of the camera. It drives me insane being forced to contend with the male dominated narratives which have inevitably shaped our gaze and ways of thinking. I notice and feel the impacts of it almost constantly seeping out sideways from all around me and within me. 
  • How can aspects of permanence be interchangeable and what role do memory and scaring play in shifting these perspectives on a larger scale

a space that feels in the midst of regrowth and scaring from a wound









body of 6 archival pigment prints, enlarged from original chemigrams size 2in x 4in


7. Again and Again (and again), April 2024 (install #1)
Bedsheet, image transfer, sharpie

2ft x 3.75ft x2 ft






    - The way Meaning is ritualized and rewired through repetition, the way telling stories and recounting memories shapes your understanding of self

    - Made in response to dealing with the symptoms of cPTSD I experience and trying to understand the way memory is stored throughout the body and reactivated during episodes resulting in moments where the barriers dissolve completely between what is happening external from the body and internally

















    8. Again and Again (and again), March 2025 (install #2)

     





    9. Camel Turkish Royal, 2024
    Found cigarette butts, trace paper, spray adhesive, wire supports

    10” x 6” x 10”



    • made while trying to quit smoking, collected cigarette butts (my own and in the street) and formed into lungs
    • Continued exploration of Addiction and dependency through repetitive action
    • The dissonance between being aware of how awful something is for your body but still not being able to stop






    10. Relapse Vessel, 2023
    Found garbage, paint

    9” x 9” x 13”


    • Getting sober from xanax and alcohol
    • Trying to investigate my relationship to addictive substances and reinterpret it
    • Walking around the city and campus collecting garbage and paraphernalia from various spots i used to use and get high at
    • In walking through my own past footsteps and sort of allowing myself to more freely play with these objects that previously had complete control over my life. Im Trying to rehumanize some of the narratives around addicts as well as acknowledge my 14 year old self for adopting the coping mechanisms of addiction as a means to survive and deal with the domestic abuse I had been facing periodically since a young age. 
    • Beginning to work with garbage most directly
    • Ritual of healing/ garbage in collecting and joining the garbage in respect to the form of its degradation                            







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