SURROGATE, 2016
Installation, Repurposed wood, audio equipment, & burlap, audio rt: 30min. on loop
12" depth x ø 9 1/2" each element, Installation views at MAKESHIFT, Kalamazoo, MI and Galeria Malagana, Managua, Nicaragua.
SURROGATE is an installation work that plays with the idea of mimesis and doubling, while setting up a dichotomy between its materiality and the aural space it creates. Two identical cylindrical forms function as speakers that play an audio interspersing an ethereal soundscape with sounds of war—gunshots, helicopters, bombings. The furniture belonged to my father and stepfather, both deceased, and as such, the work plays on the idea of a stand-in. This personal work taps into my sense of memory through its materiality and reference to growing up in Nicaragua during the Somoza dictatorship, war, and its aftermath. This work follows a series of works that deal with mimesis and iteration to actively engage the viewer in perceptual and sensorial experiences.
12" depth x ø 9 1/2" each element, Installation views at MAKESHIFT, Kalamazoo, MI and Galeria Malagana, Managua, Nicaragua.
SURROGATE is an installation work that plays with the idea of mimesis and doubling, while setting up a dichotomy between its materiality and the aural space it creates. Two identical cylindrical forms function as speakers that play an audio interspersing an ethereal soundscape with sounds of war—gunshots, helicopters, bombings. The furniture belonged to my father and stepfather, both deceased, and as such, the work plays on the idea of a stand-in. This personal work taps into my sense of memory through its materiality and reference to growing up in Nicaragua during the Somoza dictatorship, war, and its aftermath. This work follows a series of works that deal with mimesis and iteration to actively engage the viewer in perceptual and sensorial experiences.
