Ope, there goes gravity (2020). Installation; ceramic sherds, tape, accession tags, rebar, cement blocks, site photographs, drawings.
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Fascinated by the media spectacle surrounding the record-setting controlled demolition of the nearby Mina Plaza tower complex, the project approaches the site and event as an archeologist might, excavating its ruins for traces of the structure's ignoble past and celebrated demise. Unable to gain physical access to the resulting mound of rubble, the process involved surveying the surrounding environs for material evidence of the demolition, finding, in a nearby plant market, clay pots that had been shattered by the blast.
Reassembled from the collected sherds, the vessels, held together by blue painter's tape, are presented as treasured artifacts in a display that simultaneously takes cues from both the universal museum and the construction/demolition site. Documenting an unexpected impact of the operations of the real estate industry, the installation reminds us of the central, but often overlooked, role that demolition plays in urban development projects, and in the cultural institutions that sometimes anchor them.... Read more here.
As installed in So Different, So Appealing, Warehouse421 (2021).