2012 OPEN SOURCE GALLERY
Installation views and workshop, One Day This Will Not Be Yours
A collaboration project by Felipe Mujica with Monika Wuhrer, Ferran Martín and the children who participated in the sculpture workshop
Open Source Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
April 14 – 30, 2012
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The title of this exhibition is the negative version of a previous project developed by Felipe at Open Source Gallery: One Day This Will All Be Yours. The continuity of this statement – and its supposed negativity – is intended as an exploration into the question of authorship and ownership and also as a critical joke towards the possible accomplishments of modernism. Being Open Source a community-based gallery Felipe has decided to present a collaborative project which has been developed before in different spaces under different circumstances: Linea de hormigas is a sculpture-based project in which Mujica constructs – and in some cases asks other people to construct for him – modernist yet poor and ephemeral three- dimensional sculptures. The pieces vary in shape, size and color yet they are always built using the same materials and procedure: thin wood beams are “colored” and attached to each other with electric insulation tape. Sometimes set up in exhibition spaces sometimes set up in homes or in public spaces such as parks, rooftops or party rooms.
For the exhibition at Open Source Felipe asked for the collaboration of Monika Wuhrer and Ferran Martín. Monika constructed, following basic guidelines, modernist-like sculptures and placed them in different locations around Open Source Gallery. Photos of these temporary sculptural actions were later exhibited. Ferran Martín presented a new base-platform piece for the display of Linea de hormigas. This functional piece relates to Granada, a project Ferran presented at Newman Popiashvili Gallery in October 2011, which consisted in the construction of a new wood floor with a burnt geometric pattern resembling a Moorish design of Alhambra. The inclusion of this platform piece is basically a search for a new encounter, between two different histories, uses, and sensibilities of geometry. Hopefully, these new encounters will release new and unknown energies.
