Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum presents outdoor installations in sculpture garden

Left to right: Jantsankhorol Erdenebayar, Objects In Mirror Are Closer Than They Are, 2021. Courtesy of the artist;
Koyolzintli, Whistling Jar, 2025. Courtesy of the artist. — Left to right: Jantsankhorol Erdenebayar, Objects In Mirror Are Closer Than They Are, 2021. Courtesy of the artist; Koyolzintli, Whistling Jar, 2025. Courtesy of the artist.

The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum ( 258 Main St, Ridgefield, CT 06877 ) is pleased to present the 2025 Aldrich Box. Inaugurated in 2021, the Aldrich Box is an ongoing annual series featuring a year-long traveling exhibition housed in a box, available for loan to the public free of charge. For this series, the Museum commissions artists to create participatory objects meant to be handled and to travel beyond the boundaries of its walls. This year’s edition will feature two artists: Mongolia-based artist Jantsankhorol Erdenebayer, which will debut in July, followed by Kingston, NY-based artist Koyolzintli in September. Their contributions will be on view for an entire year.

In past years, the public has been invited to take the Aldrich Box home to engage with the contents in varied environments. This year, for the first time, the Aldrich Box will be sited on the Museum’s campus for the public to interact with en plein air. Visitors will access the Aldrich Box by checking in at the Museum’s Front Desk during open hours to obtain a key and instruction guide.

Jantsankhorol Erdenebayar has created Channeling our human energy for the journey ahead, 2025, an object he describes as a “travel kit,” featuring a copper outer shell adorned with imagery of human ears and an interior outfitted with faux fur, a mirror, and goat horns. Erdenebayar’s practice spans sculpture, video and performance, drawing from Mongolian mythology and exploring themes of resistance, protection, and survival. For the Aldrich Box, Erdenebayar focused on the concept of nomadism—a foundation of Mongolian culture and ancestral traditions—symbolizing a profound connection to the natural world. By transforming the museum visitor into a traveler, Erdenebayar’s object has been reimagined as a “treasure purse,” shrine, or shamanistic tool. Equipped with a handle to suggest its portability, its reflective copper surface alludes to Mongolia’s significant copper industry. The goat horns inside evoke movement, strength, and protection, while the mirror serves not only as a tool for self-reflection, but also as a symbolic portal to the spirit realm.

Koyolzintli’s practice encompasses sculptures, drawings, photographs, performance, and video. Born in New York and raised between the Pacific coast and the Andean mountains of Ecuador, Koyolzintli’s research into pre-American sound instruments has influenced her objetos sonoros – Sound Objects, which she believes hold and carry forward ancestral memory, ritual, and storytelling about the land and indigenous wisdom. For the Aldrich Box, Koyolzintli will create Whistling Jar, 2025, a work activated by water. “Its resonance,” she explains, “will connect the latitude of The Aldrich to that of our celestial super star, the Sun.” Whistling Jar will be accompanied by instructions on how to play it, as well as a brief meditation to be performed before activation. For the artist, this work is deeply connected to the land, the position of the Sun over the Museum’s Sculpture Garden, and the birds singing in the trees, carrying both ceremonial significance and site-specific resonance.

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