Suscribir Email
asamelian@hotmail.com
Tel.: +34 607 294 575

____________________
Up | Down
 

Reduction of 15m2

Reduction of 15m2 consists, as the title implies, in the reduction of 15m2 of the area dedicated to a collective exhibition. The reduction is obtained by transforming the area by placing fake walls as if they were an extension of the existing walls, always in a way that the visitor can feel the readjustment through the room’s compositional incoherence, caused by the architectural intrusion. This allows the public, whether they know the exhibition site or not, to notice the alteration.

All this is done with the intention of manipulating the cultural setting so that, by reducing the room, we rob the spectator of part of their vital space, and part of the space dedicated to art. The artist shows himself as a speculator, in a way taking from the visitor (who has no way of complaining) a space destined for culture and spiritual development. This simulates in a way the oppression caused by architecture when it is seen as an instrument of the purist form of capitalism, and when the excessive building of walls, more to sell than to live in, begins to awaken the legitimate suspicion that one is being ripped off.




 

Creative Commons 2012 - Tony Samelian