unlikely materials merge in a temporary sculpture, as precarious as worn-out teeth.
3.1. fehlt
Contribution for Prix d'art Robert Schuman 2019
Cercle Cité and Villa Vauban, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, 2019
A conversation of industrially manufactured and hand crafted materials, between distance and proximity, hard and soft, dependency and trust, global supply chains and local ressources.
Materials are:
A light wait system of brackets and connectors, hand made in a tiny studio in NYC, collapsed and sent by mail.
A load of plates loaned by a porcelain manufacturer in the borderland of the European Grand Region surrounding Luxembourg.
The parts prepared on different continents join together in a fragile sculpture under tension.
A neo-baroque stair hall, the Foyer of the Cercle Cité serves as the venue of the unlikely conjuncture.
Dental articulating paper records vibrations, inconsistencies and frictions wherever the porcelain rubs against each to maintain the precarious fragile balance of the assembly.
The harness and joints were made remotely, to eventually meet and match the used plates and architectural settings like a fitted suit. They were collapsed and shipped by mail from New York to Luxembourg and assembled for the first time on the exhibition site following a detailed manual.
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Thanks to curator Bettina Leuchtenberg, installers Yolanda Guastaferro Marcano and Barfin Habash and industrial partner Villeroy und Boch.
Materials: tyvek, rubber, liquid latex, pigment, nylon straps, air filled balls, sewing thread, plates.
