Mariana Castillo Deball, Todo es igual, se suicida la brújula, 2011 (Papier maché, photocopy and aluminium wire)
'Amikejo: Uqbar (Irene Kopelman & Mariana Castillo Deball)', Laboratorio 987, MUSAC, 25 June–11 September
Uqbar (Irene Kopelman and Mariana Castillo Deball explore the “interchanges, mutations, transmutations, metamorphosis and contaminations that working together entails... the not belonging to one or the other but rather creating an in between zone”, as the artists have described. The artists investigate the principal of chirality or ‘handedness’ – the property of an object that is not superimposable on its mirror image (human hands being the most recognizable example: the left hand is a non-superimposable mirror image of the right hand). Uqbar take this phenomenon as a metaphor of two organisms working together, mirroring each other; and at the same time being completely different and alien to each other. The exhibition is dominated by a spiral staircase, which serves as a viewpoint for other artifacts and objects. Uqbar create a psychedelic chiral ecosystem, featuring hanging papier-mâché epiphyte sculptures and enlarged stone microfossils, as well as “Banyan tree drawings, a video of a chemical reaction, fables among non-humans and drawings of hybrid creatures”.
Photo: Latitudes | www.lttds.org
Mariana Castillo Deball, Todo es igual, se suicida la brújula, 2011 (Papier maché, photocopy and aluminium wire)
'Amikejo: Uqbar (Irene Kopelman & Mariana Castillo Deball)', Laboratorio 987, MUSAC, 25 June–11 September
Uqbar (Irene Kopelman and Mariana Castillo Deball explore the “interchanges, mutations, transmutations, metamorphosis and contaminations that working together entails... the not belonging to one or the other but rather creating an in between zone”, as the artists have described. The artists investigate the principal of chirality or ‘handedness’ – the property of an object that is not superimposable on its mirror image (human hands being the most recognizable example: the left hand is a non-superimposable mirror image of the right hand). Uqbar take this phenomenon as a metaphor of two organisms working together, mirroring each other; and at the same time being completely different and alien to each other. The exhibition is dominated by a spiral staircase, which serves as a viewpoint for other artifacts and objects. Uqbar create a psychedelic chiral ecosystem, featuring hanging papier-mâché epiphyte sculptures and enlarged stone microfossils, as well as “Banyan tree drawings, a video of a chemical reaction, fables among non-humans and drawings of hybrid creatures”.
Photo: Latitudes | www.lttds.org