wandering the galleries slow of Saatchi Gallery, I found the number 13, which is located on the ground floor of the magnificent hall. "Nursing", the facility occupies the space, designed by Chinese artists Sun Yuan and Peng Yu, consists of thirteen sculptures nursing-size and equal number of wheelchairs dynamo in which they walk, spite of them, their old humanities.
(Before proceeding, a parenthesis: Sun Yuan and Peng Yu are two of China's most controversial artists of our time. In previous works have been used since live animals through human tissue to the bodies of children to address disparate topics and gravest).
In "Nursing", wheelchairs have motion sensors that prevent collisions with spectators. As much as I crossed the way in their path, no of wheelchairs or brushed my intention. However, nothing prevented them collide with each other over and over again. Although slowly, I saw the rage encounter of which is given to the machines, quite apart from the will of his unwilling passengers. This is curious and meets certain poetic justice, because in the asylum are forced to coexist patriarchs antagonistic religions and cults ancestral creators of new, heroes and anti-heroes on both sides of the Iron Curtain have been at the mercy of the free will of the chairs and carry their medals worn, bones, ideologies ...
0 comments:
Post a Comment