Felipe Mujica: One day this will NOT be yours
A collaboration project by Felipe Mujica with Monika Wuhrer and Ferran Martín
Opening Reception: April 14th, 7-9pm
April 14th -30th
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, the sculptures aim to talk about the failure of modernism. This should be read against the history of modernism in Latin America, its aspiration of change and promise of a modern and more equal world… On the other hand Latin American modernism succeeded in the development of a new language, one that responded to specific conditions of its context, expanding its own work procedures from the pure formal into the socially engaged.
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 a new and unknown energy.
