OSCAR SANTILLAN: some-new-little-works (December 2009

Thursday, December 10, 2009

some-new-little-works (December 2009 - VCU)

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The faint castration
Burnt-out fluorescent light
2009

The army with no past
All the pages of a novel rearranged as a flat composition
2009

The sad landlord
Candle wax and fluorescent light
2009

The golden book of cookies
A book bound with two spines
2009

The manifesto of goodness
Performance
2009

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AnonymousFeb 6, 2010 08:29 AM
I just thought I'd drop a line and tell you how much I like the new work, especially the video performance and the "lecture"
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AnonymousMar 25, 2010 05:06 PM
la idea me parece similar... http://www.tvecuador.com/index.php?option=com_reportajes&id=1214&view=showcanal&Itemid=27
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artist STATEMENT

A few years ago I renounced my political beliefs. By getting rid of the ideological superstitions and fraudulent morals of social utopias, I awoke to phenomenological thinking. In fact, I am not a citizen anymore; I am a wanderer who sneaks into the gaps of perception, history, and culture itself.

If there is something I am willing to create, it will be a device able to fill the gap in between clocks and calendars. If there is a rebellion I am willing to join, it is the one where the crowd whispers their demands. If there is a problem I am trying to solve, it is how to turn history into an empty skin with no past.

Manipulating materials through a meticulous process is at the core of my practice. This becomes evident in Memorial, where I extract the ink from the New York Times and transform it into a miniature deer. Or, in The Permanent Blink where I stitch together every blink by James Dean from all of his films to create a single video. Stripping the material’s embedded history is necessary to fit it into an unexpected body so that it can become a new flesh.

Therefore, my work is not about silence or erasure, but about mutation: how to transform marble into air, and air into flesh. It is about carefully creating a phantom while offering it a new body to inhabit.

I aim for a way to cast mood instead of building up meaning. Mood must suspend interpretation by inflaming the spectator’s sensibility.

Thursday, December 10, 2009

some-new-little-works (December 2009 - VCU)

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