Provisional Obstruction is a collaborative project with Misael Soto, a site specific public installation with an indoor and outdoor element at ACRE Projects, Chicago, Illinois, USA. September 15 - October 9, 2017
Provisional Obstruction is a collaborative project with Misael Soto, a site specific public installation with an indoor and outdoor element at ACRE Projects, Chicago, Illinois, USA. September 15 - October 9, 2017
Temporary and pragmatic objects and structures, such as scaffolding, are secondary and subservient to what are traditionally seen as more permanent objects and structures. Street-side images, such as advertising, illuminate and support future permanent objects and structures. Scaffolding and public advertising, both ancillary and complementary forms, oftentimes communicate the sale, construction, or restoration of future structures, to benefit a select few. But what if such objects are brought together and used as a means to their own collective end? When dysfunctional in this way, these objects become global signifiers, presenting a reflection, simultaneously projecting the present and the present as the future. What does this action reflect back onto the objects’ usual contexts when they are the foundation and purpose of their own, existing only for themselves?
Temporary and pragmatic objects and structures, such as scaffolding, are secondary and subservient to what are traditionally seen as more permanent objects and structures. Street-side images, such as advertising, illuminate and support future permanent objects and structures. Scaffolding and public advertising, both ancillary and complementary forms, oftentimes communicate the sale, construction, or restoration of future structures, to benefit a select few. But what if such objects are brought together and used as a means to their own collective end? When dysfunctional in this way, these objects become global signifiers, presenting a reflection, simultaneously projecting the present and the present as the future. What does this action reflect back onto the objects’ usual contexts when they are the foundation and purpose of their own, existing only for themselves?
Misael Soto and I made it our mutual concern to see how far these inquiries could lead us when simultaneously concerned locally and globally. Covering the entire height and width of the facade of ACRE Projects’ Pilsen home, our public installation deviated passersby viewpoints, and disrupted and diverted foot traffic along the sidewalk, becoming the catalyst for conversation birthed from impermanence, and hoping to lead towards shared ideas of stability.
Misael Soto and I made it our mutual concern to see how far these inquiries could lead us when simultaneously concerned locally and globally. Covering the entire height and width of the facade of ACRE Projects’ Pilsen home, our public installation deviated passersby viewpoints, and disrupted and diverted foot traffic along the sidewalk, becoming the catalyst for conversation birthed from impermanence, and hoping to lead towards shared ideas of stability.
View other iterations in this series: Provisional Obstruction, Little Haiti, Miami (2019)
View other iterations in this series: Provisional Obstruction, Little Haiti, Miami (2019)
Provisional Obstruction (Outdoor Installation)Collaborative Project with Misael SotoMetal and digital print on flex29 x 50 feet2017
Programming:
Provisional Obstruction: In Conversation
October 8 2017For the closing weekend of Provisional Obstruction, artists Ayesha Singh and Misael Soto have a conversation with Daniel Quiles, Associate Professor of Art History, Theory and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The three of them hope to lead a discussion with those in attendance about the public art work's formal and conceptual underpinnings, and it's implications within the community and beyond.
For the closing weekend of Provisional Obstruction, artists Ayesha Singh and Misael Soto have a conversation with Daniel Quiles, Associate Professor of Art History, Theory and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The three of them hope to lead a discussion with those in attendance about the public art work's formal and conceptual underpinnings, and it's implications within the community and beyond.
Provisional Obstruction (Indoor Installation)Collaborative Project with Misael SotoMetal and digital print on silk10 x 5 x 5 feet2017
Selected Press:Art Review, December 2017
Selected Press:Art Review, December 2017