juntos - together
acts as the first exhibition featuring work from some members of the collective... held at stirrup gallery sydney and showcasing some of our concerns, artistic preoccupations, intentions and interactions.
$3200
origami
this linen covered mdf; acts as mounting board for something we have called origami... which far from being a folding piece of paper, consists of a discarded echo panel (commonly used in office spaces as wall covering or desk separator... it has great acoustic absorption properties... interesting fact, it is sixty percent post-consumer recycled pet) salvaged from a construction site… its rigidity allows for screws to act as valley or mountain if one thinks of the folding technique described previously... partially covered with discarded black waterproofing (most of this materials were gathered as we worked for a joinery company that has now gone under liquidation {and we wonder if there is a link between wasteful processes and the precariousness of those remunerated activities most of us take part of}), the piece holds dried plants gathered at our local flower market and wild endemic plants & flowers collected from the block that surrounds the impossible gallery...
$2800
a bench and a table
the timber was salvaged from a skip bin located at one of those beacons of knowledge aka (bla, bla, bla) university, specifically the engineering laboratory which has an abundace of this material (clt {cross laminated timber})... after “important data” has been extracted it then becomes rubbish... the object of information, not the information gathered... (...- is that a joke?...) or does it only reinforces that our processes are wasteful from the seed to the grave…
the chairs
(replicas of the dsw ray and charles plastic chairs), are what we have identified as one of the most popular acquisition to be thrown away, even when their components are generally in fair and usable conditions… //[funny right, an object deemed as good design spanning more than eighty years of age with the dominant idea that plastic is the material of mass consumption emphasizes how we are getting close to the hundred year mark of disposing off a man made material]// .... in this case, we decided to cut the height of the chair legs considering the thickness of the recovered clt timber, to allow for a comfortable sitting height... the seats were located very close to each other to prompt a very close situation between the two individuals using it... the enquiry here is: what type of interaction will this chair(s) promote… physical contact and face to face interactions are at play…the table
acts as an auxiliary object, what could it hold in a different scenario? (a drink, a book, or something else that you might think complements a good/bad conversation)... in this case: a one point two liter ridel decanter acquired at one of those overcharging venues in the city… it was brought to us under the excuse that a chip in the glass was unacceptable for service... can you find the chip?... inside of it, water, symbolizing the triumphant/bland statement of leaving alcohol aside, a constant battle and a common resource of our past… growing in this transparent medium, two plants, epipremnum aureum and monstera adansonii, both, commonly domesticated house plants, toxic to pets, easily propagated and resilient… any similarities to you?don’t forget about the details!... salvaged from site a “golden packer” with the implicit question that came to our minds as quick as we stumble upon it..... why that color? (with its general characteristic of wealth... what is it about gold that makes it appealing, different...? {who knows, and who cares! it serves the purpose of leveling the surface that rests on top of it})
$1750
taxidermy altar…
$1750
again we found our object fixed to a piece of discarded mdf board, the buffer zone a thin layer of copper… a gift, what can we make, how can we incorporate it to our days… should we start praying, will we make our own rituals?... fixed with plywood gathered at a worksite the horns (a sissy bar that never quite made it to the motorcycle that for years took us to so many places) rise upside down suggesting a creature… {some might find similarities to insects while for us it was so evident that we were mucking the sadly static/ but triumphantly infused stuffed hunted creatures killed for game [we wonder how far we are from what we consume to fuel our bodies]}... the skull of this imaginary “mammal” (or your desired creature)… carved from plywood, a memory of a day a ten millimeter drill bit pierced a wrist… melts as contour lines evidence the manufactured soul of a tree that one day rose proudly over the soil… and we still wonder how to frame the piece, or if a joke is an option, a hint of an intricate frame lies amongst this ideas, at the bottom corner... as a word that came into a conversation never instigated… and we walk off, still wondering about the sacred, what is given, dreams that never came true, the suggestion of a boundary and the trajectory of those aspects of study that slowly get swallowed into those spaces we inhabit…
$2300
the guts…
this piece is the insides of a “box (of sorts)” to be exhibited at the twenty fifth annual liverpool art society exhibition… from the twenty eighth of october at casula’s powerhouse… it just came to be from the idea of minimizing the waste generated from the thought of a given piece (in this case: “the box”…) as we thought of the extracted block, movement came to our minds… “the second brain” what about all the connections we never make, we just never think of… so many years as a species thinking of our brain, and new data slaps us in the gut, where connection between our feelings and what goes in our bodies… millions of nerve cells interacting, do you get butterflies or just a gut feeling… so, for the time being, it holds the second yield of some delicious and beautiful pink oyster mushroom, there is so much perfection and purpose on their every single part… perfectly and naturally dried it keeps its playful topologies, their vibrant color… and we can only pretend theres a shape to be created… let art be again nothing but the backdrop for a flawless design…
$1200
contrast…
is a piece that tells a few stories… one about what our loved ones leave behind, a request that looses its inherited brightness against the darkness of the everyday… what we decide to suppress by taking something or cut someone by dismissing a full conversation… on how the past sort of merges into the present… allegorically burnt timber and drying “ilex aquifolium”... thorny looking the double curvatures of this plant reminds us of those temples of felix candela as we walk on long forgotten memories… where and when does the fragility of a piece is evidenced, when it is fondled with or when it is not cared for?... we seem to be always on a rush… swimming on turbulent waters… and even when it might look awkward like an ossified fish carcass, we think of all those paintings depicting chopped in half fish and their attempt to portray piety and abundance… while we think of knives piercing immaculate geometric skins with very expressive lidless piercing eyes contrast with an unexpected dinner with old time friends…
about the color palette
we could only think of black for three reasons:
one: as an allegoric resource, spring has come with really high temperatures, we know and feel the island we walk on will burn partially as we have seen on previous years... devastating as it is, the common feeling we perceibe is that the majority of us decide to underlook and question global warming, and we go on… consuming, abusing each other and the resources we extract!
two: to weave three exhibitions visually in almost the same time span, juntos/together, laundrlab opening and the twenty fifth annual liverpool art society exhibition...
three: death is lingering around every corner and some of us might decide to stay walking, and some have decided to part in their own terms... so while we still remember, we dance and think of people like johnny cash and his evolving performance of wearing black... click here
one: as an allegoric resource, spring has come with really high temperatures, we know and feel the island we walk on will burn partially as we have seen on previous years... devastating as it is, the common feeling we perceibe is that the majority of us decide to underlook and question global warming, and we go on… consuming, abusing each other and the resources we extract!
two: to weave three exhibitions visually in almost the same time span, juntos/together, laundrlab opening and the twenty fifth annual liverpool art society exhibition...
three: death is lingering around every corner and some of us might decide to stay walking, and some have decided to part in their own terms... so while we still remember, we dance and think of people like johnny cash and his evolving performance of wearing black... click here
on the geometry and the lack of frame
the pieces prescind of a frame with the intention to remind anyone viewing that no imaginary constraints or boundaries should ever constrict the freedom that resides in our minds... the question might be as it follows: are these only functional objects? (an unusual plant container, a bench, a table and a chair or is this art? {and what would the purpose of art is?} [maybe a gimmick, a statement of sorts]) if you read up to this point!... we prompt you, get off your device and get going, do something creative, talk to someone you would not necesarilly think of... from the studio(garage)... salud!