WORKS 08-09

  

Prefiche (2009) Performance, duration approx. 20 min.
Table, onions, chopping boards.
Guest Room at Collective Gallery (Edinburgh, UK) as part of Love-in.

The word prefiche comes from the Italian folklore and indicate women who were employed to cry on request at funerals. They were some kind of professional mourners.
After gathering the audience in a small room with no windows the performers chop onions copiously and fast aiming for the audience to cry

Gulp (2008) site specific intervention, acrylic black stripe on walls, different dimensions

In this work I decided to 'draw the attention' onto the actual physical, architectural space that would normally function as a passive container.
The quality of the space itself, being a very small, low ceiling room had all the qualities to facilitate the intervention.
The idea is to turn a real space into a drawing or an Auto CAD version of a space, creating a simulacrum of the room.
The sometimes subtle hand made quality of the lines (due to the imperfection of the plasterwork) concur to give to the space a cartoon like quality, almost a humorous edge, inviting the audience to question the authenticity of the surrounding environment

Blow up (2008) Peroni bottle, embroidered cloth, petrol and shelf

How low can we go? (2008-9) IKEA tarpaulin body bag, 80 cm x 200 cm approx.

How low can we go? (2008-9)  as shown in Boneless Box group exhibition at Embassy Gallery (2009)

Photo courtesy of Norman Hogg

Hi-Fi (2009) hand-made replica of an IKEA Benno Tower CD rack.White Formica, chipboard and fabricator pencil's marks, 20 cm x 20 cm x 200 cm approx.Photo by Stephen Macgarry

Hi-Fi might, from a distance, look like a mass-produced furniture piece but when inspected closely it reveals its uniqueness and hand made quality.

Hi-Fi also, when presented as a free standing object in a white-cube-type-gallery space, becomes an art object and falls into new system of values not only because of the hand-craft involved in its fabrication but also because its shift in function.

Hi-Fi reflects on the supposed differences between work of art and other consumers goods.

The size, the scale and the formal aspect of Hi-Fi also mimic an approximate notion of Minimalism.

This work operates as a caricature, exploring the concept of simulacra.

Faux Pas (2009) print on canvas of a photograph taken of an artificial orchid 90 cm x 90 cm x 5 cm.

Methods of Killing (2009) 150 cm diameter x 80 cm height.

Velvet upholstered round seat in the shape of a Pie Chart, representing the data, taken from the Scottish Government records, of the most popular methods of homicide in Scotland

Sharp instruments 51%
Hitting and kicking 19 %
Blunt Instruments  9 %
Strangulation and asphyxiation 6%
Poisoning 6%
Shooting 2%
Other or unknown 6%