Through economical and invasive means, the artist transforms urban detritus such as found cardboard, police barricades, and
carpet remnants into bunker - like structures that retain a semblance of solidity yet convey a feeling of melancholy and gloom.
Not exact matches
I made my first purchase of these cool vintage
carpet remnants that I am currently sewing together and finagling
into a giant pillow.
With the use of fabric
remnants that suggest landscapes contrasting with the symbols of domesticity — aprons, blankets,
carpets and rugs, Herzog designs a confusion of contexts, bringing the domestic
into the theatre with hints of scale of vast landscape.
And Varzea, in which the ruins and
remnants of human activity dissolve
into a flood - soaked field, again, transforms
into a
carpet, whose fabric then weaves and sprouts
into a pitch.