THE DORMANT COLONY
Solo exhibition in the Sanatorium gallery
ASIA
120 x 110 cm, Oil painting on canvas, 2016
Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl, Tiqqun
"The Young-Girl is not always young; more and more frequently, she is not even female. She is the figure of total integration in a disintegrating social totality." Tiqqun.
INTER CAETERA DIVINAE
36 x 38 cm, Engraving and painting on aluminum board, 2016
The title to a papal bull from 1493 issued by Pope Alexander VI Inter caetera (“Among other”) was a papal bull issued by Pope Alexander VI on4 May 1493, which granted to Spain (the Crowns of Castile and Aragon) all lands to the “west and south” of a pole-to-pole line 100 leagues west and south of any of the islands of the Azores or the Cape Verde islands. This piece is refered directly to the book “Nomos of the earth” written by Carl Schmitt.
KILL BOX
Installation with 4000 B&W photocopies of the US ARMY publication about FM 3-09.34 Kill Box Tactics and Multiservice ProCedures,
Two Neon Lights, 2016
You can find more on kill-boxes and their operationalisation here.
link: http://info.publicintelligence.net/MTTP-KillBox.pdf
As defined in the U.S. Department of Defense Dictionary, the kill box is “a three-dimensional area reference that enables timely, effective coordination and control and facilitates rapid attacks. »Types«The Departement of Defense uses these to target people whose “pattern of life” fit the parameters of an algorithm, rather than specific individuals.
LEVIATHAN - MATTER, FORM AND POWER
48 x 48 cm. Engraving and painting on aluminum board, 2016
This piece is refered directly to the book Leviathan written by Thomas Hobbes and published in 1651.
THE DORMANT COLONY 1 & 2
530 cm & 480 cm / Text in 41 A4 pockets and 4 neon lights, 2016
In this world, the artist was the product of a collective representation caught up in the game of individuality. As always when waking up, he would enter the ideological realm of art to occupy its space convinced he would exit empowered.
PRESERVE DEMOCRACY
150 x 150 cm, Installation with 40 medicine bottles, liquid detergent, stickers and neons 2016
EUROPA
140 x 3 cm
Engraving and painting on a metal stick
2015
RUINS
Light Installation. Neon light with burned book
2015
Novel written by the artist in 2014 and burnt in 2015. Political fiction mixe with Sci-fi topics.
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