The Demonstrators (Drowning Bulb), 2012
Nina Beier
Tania Pérez Córdova
Following the notion of breaking an object in order to truly experience it, Nina Beier (*1975, Denmark) presents The Demonstrators, a group of artworks that portrays futility as a state of pure presence.
At the core of Beier’s sculptures are images purchased from various stock photography agencies that come from online sources. These found images are then merged with found objects: poster print-outs are dipped in glue and hung to dry on different sorts of objects that constitute the support.
These ensembles, although apparently simplistic, allow a complete merging of sign, support, and that which is signified, although – at the same time – they could suggest a collapse of language, instead of its configuration. They seek recognizable symbolical value while remaining open metaphors, and have the ability to refer to many things, while left to reflect upon their own sense of ‘being.’ While the poster and its object support are firmly glued together, Beier takes an interest in how they remain without an adhesive that cements subject and object together so that the intentional experience is one.
The work Tania Pérez Córdova (*1979, Mexico City, Mexico) is inspired by her interest in the way that the certainty of an object is created and in the relation between vision and conviction. She explores the situation of objects, paying special attention to the way in which they exist. Pérez Córdova does not believe in the autonomy of objects but in their circumstantial existence and significance. A very important part of her work consists in being really close to the production process, where she can closely analyze the materials and the way in which one thing leads to the other, experiencing the invisible content of a work of art through the space between one object and another.
