Not exact matches
WEST VILLAGE — City leaders kicked off
construction on the new Minetta Playground Monday, clearing the way for West Village parents and children to replace the rats and garbage currently
inhabiting the
space.
The city, its margins (the beach as a territory in its own right, the suburbs), its in - between or its interstices — physical and temporal (like the place Danton under
construction), its private,
inhabited spaces, men, women and children who cross or live there, constitute a material of infinite richness of which the 17 artists presented here have taken possession.
Often produced with material forms associated with
construction, Ochoa's works expose the ideological and broader sociopolitical and economic relationships that facilitate the way
spaces we
inhabit and move through are assembled.
Using materials that makeup the built environment — concrete, metals, wood — Ochoa creates artworks that reveal how
construction techniques shape the
spaces people
inhabit and in turn directly impact their access and mobility.
Her massive
constructions fill rooms, undulate over gallery walls, and generally
inhabit spaces with an almost animate presence.
Her installations are constantly in flux, resulting either from her
construction and deconstruction of the
spaces they
inhabit or from the multimedia videos that become both artifacts of the physical pieces and digital worlds all their own.
He uses
construction and industrial materials such as metal, concrete, rubber and glass, which he combines in astonishing manners to bring a dialogue between the material, the
space it
inhabits and the viewer.
His project consists of a group of
constructions to stand in or to walk over, which relate abstractly to the idea of
inhabiting different moments of
space and time.
Like the sun, rugs enter and engage
spaces inhabited by individuals and communities, holding an inherent iconicity that represent everyday exercises of social
construction.