Civilization has at all times had an extraordinary connection with the stars, colossal balls of energy twinkling in space. Shooting stars in particular hold a special place within the cosmic mythologies of most ancient civilizations. The shooting star represents an interaction between man and the divine. It represents something moving from a heavenly cosmic plain to the mortal, earthly world, attracted towards the Earth by gravity. With this specific work, I want to create a subjective and ambiguous arrangement based on the use of objects, materials and images, juxtapositions of different universes, diverse factors and qualities but with a common subject. My aim is to create a potential conversation among shooting stars, situation that reveals the system in our society and its positions to the failure, the collapse of those that once were brilliant and a radiant entity.
Objects that had been functional once even adored by their ex owners, but now out of date at the present, reflecting our everyday life, often bizarre, with humour and irony. The assemblages of found objects and manufactured variety on show develops a narrative relationship, to symbolize nostalgia, failing, falling, gravity and rising. Representing experience, objects occupy the key role of the composition; it is through objects that we can access past histories. Materiality and vulnerability, crisis, pursuing relationship that are very familiar and intimate to us, they seems to grow to fill their habitat and form links with each other.
This assemble consists of a ‘star’ made of jesmonite painted in yellow to symbolize a star in the sky, a handmade TV with the image of an old TV and a Record of Cliff Richard. The image is a colour transparent photography in a plastic frame used in advertising, it is a found image of an old fashion TV monitor, taken in London docklands; I set a light inside the box and behind the image to get a clear image, to symbolize the fallen of the analogical format and the uselessness of photography in the advertised product in the present day. The record of Cliff Richard is to represent the fall of the vinyl record format and the artist itself, his dubious career, plastic surgery and personal life. The image also represents a sculpture of the singer in stop motion, wearing white and kitsch pink and silver, on a white round pedestal.
The objects are on the floor because the gravity pulls them down; the base is made of 2 acrylic transparent sheets to embody the elements of the composition, and also change its appearance once the floor colour changes. The colour and form is like that because I wanted to keep the colour and energy the stars have in the sky. The TV is on the top of a green ramp; the colour of the ramp is a joke referencing to the green folder of the sculpture course and a homage to Phyllida Barlow’ ramp, which is a splash of colour lifting the sensation of encountering a distance from the floor. The TV is raised to play against gravity; the record also lifted with a transparent fishing line. The arrangement is open to different interpretations. The intention of the composition is to show, as a personal experience, that everything and everyone can fall but at the same time there is a hope to get up.
Objects that had been functional once even adored by their ex owners, but now out of date at the present, reflecting our everyday life, often bizarre, with humour and irony. The assemblages of found objects and manufactured variety on show develops a narrative relationship, to symbolize nostalgia, failing, falling, gravity and rising. Representing experience, objects occupy the key role of the composition; it is through objects that we can access past histories. Materiality and vulnerability, crisis, pursuing relationship that are very familiar and intimate to us, they seems to grow to fill their habitat and form links with each other.
This assemble consists of a ‘star’ made of jesmonite painted in yellow to symbolize a star in the sky, a handmade TV with the image of an old TV and a Record of Cliff Richard. The image is a colour transparent photography in a plastic frame used in advertising, it is a found image of an old fashion TV monitor, taken in London docklands; I set a light inside the box and behind the image to get a clear image, to symbolize the fallen of the analogical format and the uselessness of photography in the advertised product in the present day. The record of Cliff Richard is to represent the fall of the vinyl record format and the artist itself, his dubious career, plastic surgery and personal life. The image also represents a sculpture of the singer in stop motion, wearing white and kitsch pink and silver, on a white round pedestal.
The objects are on the floor because the gravity pulls them down; the base is made of 2 acrylic transparent sheets to embody the elements of the composition, and also change its appearance once the floor colour changes. The colour and form is like that because I wanted to keep the colour and energy the stars have in the sky. The TV is on the top of a green ramp; the colour of the ramp is a joke referencing to the green folder of the sculpture course and a homage to Phyllida Barlow’ ramp, which is a splash of colour lifting the sensation of encountering a distance from the floor. The TV is raised to play against gravity; the record also lifted with a transparent fishing line. The arrangement is open to different interpretations. The intention of the composition is to show, as a personal experience, that everything and everyone can fall but at the same time there is a hope to get up.
