Posture 42: Even if you: - Poem by Juan Pablo Plazas, an interview with Tania Nasielski and the artist
Juan Pablo Plazas
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Colombian anthropologist and artist Juan Pablo Plazas is fascinated by the ability of people and communities to interpret the world in different ways. In his practice, he starts from everyday objects and raw materials that have special material or formal properties. With wonder and a sense of humour, he takes them out of their ordinary context, turns them into sculptures or gives them a role in a performance. Through this action, Plazas breaks through the ‘dead normal’ and invites us to understand objects as animated, living matter.
‘Even if You’ is a book in which all the lines set out by the artist in recent years come together as if they were a crossroads.
‘When I think of the art I create and the discourse that surrounds my art, this image comes to mind: a ship adrift between icebergs. The icebergs being the found things, stories, encounters, situations that surface in an unpredictable way. The fact that I’m able to see only the tip of the iceberg, that maybe there are other parts of things that I can’t und...
‘Even if You’ is a book in which all the lines set out by the artist in recent years come together as if they were a crossroads.
‘When I think of the art I create and the discourse that surrounds my art, this image comes to mind: a ship adrift between icebergs. The icebergs being the found things, stories, encounters, situations that surface in an unpredictable way. The fact that I’m able to see only the tip of the iceberg, that maybe there are other parts of things that I can’t und...
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2021Uitgever: Posture Editions96 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 9491262432ISBN-13: 9789491262432Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Colombian anthropologist and artist Juan Pablo Plazas is fascinated by the ability of people and communities to interpret the world in different ways. In his practice, he starts from everyday objects and raw materials that have special material or formal properties. With wonder and a sense of humour, he takes them out of their ordinary context, turns them into sculptures or gives them a role in a performance. Through this action, Plazas breaks through the 'dead normal' and invites us to understand objects a...
