DOMESTIC PROSTHESIS  © 2012 :: Raquel Ponce Gallery

"Domestic Prosthesis".
Raquel Ponce Gallery, Madrid, Spain 

01/03/2012 to 10/04/2012

The works that form part of the series Domestic Prosthesis propose an investigation into the trinomial of the urban, the prosthetic and the domestic. It is no longer a question of opposing the classic public space (city) to the private space (house), but of making them cohabit in a structured prosthetic system, attentive to the definition of transitional spaces, of mestizo zones, of ambiguous unions, of amputated or agenesic limbs; enhancing that plural, combinatory, multiple experience that contemporary man possesses. The experiences we have in the city are established in our collective imaginary and literally creep into our daily lives, into our homes, as if they were a tumour. 

Domestic Prosthesis proposes an analysis of these deformations in order to propitiate an artistic response that hybridises altered everyday elements. An alteration that is proposed not as an integration or symbiosis, but in a subtle harmony of concepts, forms and materials. The artefacts generated explore the domestic archetypes of the house, the home and the collective dwelling. The object as such is altered by a sculptural prosthesis that replaces an existing deformation and modifies its natural state by introducing the organicity of the city, which is conceived as a body that grows, deforms, crushes, amputates, folds and fractalises on itself. The amputated or absent zone acts as a topography for the development of an imagined city, where its urban morphology is adjusted to the three-dimensionality of the absent zone; and where its layout replaces the amputated arteries and veins of our domestic body.

CREDITS ::

Conceptualisation: Esther Pizarro
Production: Esther Pizarro
Photography: Markus Schroll

ASSOCIATED CATALOGUE ::

Pizarro, Esther (2012). Catálogo exposición: Prótesis Domésticas. Texto: Esther Pizarro. Edita: Galería Raquel Ponce, Madrid. Edición digital

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