Georgia Saxelby is an interdisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles. Working across sculpture, installation, and architectural intervention, her practice explores how architecture encodes cultural values and reinforces hierarchies. She approaches monumental structures as haunted cultural fictions, exposing their porous and unstable qualities, ripe for reinvention. From creating new ornamental languages for Neoclassical facades or staging alternative rituals in national monuments, her work seeks to create slippages between reality and fiction to propose alternative imaginaries.

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In Architectural Ornaments, Saxelby reimagines the decorations that cover the Neoclassical facades of Western monumental architecture. Drawing from her grandmother’s costume jewelry collection, Saxelby’s glittering ornaments in ceramic and glass rely on artifice, fantasy and an Alice in Wonderland-like scale shift, resisting Western architecture’s ideals of stability, purity and rationality. The artist combines color-shifting iridescent pigments, ceramic lusters, glass powders, and larger-than-life handmade rhinestones and pearls to create her own dazzling technicolor architectural fantasy. Decoration is put forward as a strategy of subversion, and the activities of dress-up and make-believe are seen as crucial forms of calling new worlds into being.​