Etage Projects in Copenhagen is showcasing “Money makes me ugly, Mickey makes me happy” by Raquel Quevedo.Etage Projects, Copenhagen presents Raquel Quevedo’s sculptures “Money makes me ugly, Mickey makes me happy,” on view through October 24, 2018.“Perfect and polished objects are hidden under the word ‘lifestyle’. It’s time for a change! Serialisation no longer informs the way I create; I can make objects ‘now’, in the present tense. They are no longer enslaved by the memory of taste. I don’t want objects that work as serial products in our memories! I want them to express themselves! I want them to say something! Now is the time of the no-time; where design objects camouflage themselves underneath artistic sculptures looking for their place to live in, their space to conquer; where I make physical objects that switch their shape and re-exist in other digital hyper-realities. It’s now time to treat Mickey for drinks!” Raquel says.“My aim when I started this project was to recycle the left-out materials that kept on piling up in my studio. I wanted to turn trash into something aesthetically pleasing and visually powerful. At the very beginning, I wanted to use those materials to create sculptures that were going to have the shape of various typefaces. Experimenting with photography and sculpture, I decided to create a piece without thinking what the final result would be,” Raquel adds.The artist says that with this project, she was interested in generating a similar system of creation and diffusion of images to the one we use when we use our computer or cell-phone; whatever isn’t photographed, it doesn’t exist.Through this project, the artist contrasts the created pieces (physical, real) with their “alter egos” or “parallel lives” (digital photographs, fiction).“The artist is interested in generating a feedback between the physical sculptures and the ‘analogue’ ones through the digital multiplicity of the piece itself. The artist is interested in exploring the tensions between what is real and what is fiction, and at the same time to explore the parallel life for the trash itself,” says the gallery."Money makes me ugly, Mickey makes me happy” is on view through September 20, 2018 at Etage Projects, Borgergade 15E, 1300 Copenhagen, Denmark.For details, visit: http://www.etageprojects.com/ Click on the slideshow for a sneak peek at the exhibition.http://www.blouinartinfo.com/ Founder: Louise Blouin
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