Exhibition: Manufracture Series: Bread, Steel, and Benjamin Moore
Location: Temporary Storage of Brooklyn Fire Proof, New York
Year: 2016
Medium: installation | photographs, sculptures, videos, live performance
Press Release
The Manufracture Series: Bread, Steel, and Benjamin Moore continues to investigate the segregated yet inseparable relationships between manufacturing and artmaking within local settings in Brooklyn. Through collaboration with an Italian bakery in Bensonhurst, a Chinese steel fabrication shop in Sunset Park, and an artist and interior painter working in Brooklyn, I attempt to re-fabricate the boundaries and to create an overlap between artmaking, which is conventionally considered sublimated and bound to aesthetic principles, and manufacturing, the processes of which are seldom seen.
Throughout the process, I experienced the different roles an artist has to play when collaborating with local manufacturers in order to produce an exhibition. By switching back and forth among the roles of outreacher, customer, collaborator, laborer, and presenter, I inevitably represented the art and artist in a fluid way, with adaptable angles and language. By analogizing how and where artists can posit themselves and how the enterprise of contemporary art can be interlaced with the process of manufacturing from a local and social perspective, I aspire to portray their relationships with multiple layers and open interpretations.
This project is in collaboration with Manuel Molina Martagon, Colby Cannon Welsh, NY Brooklyn Bread, and Quality Stainless Steel Inc.
Manufracture Series: Bread, Steel, and Benjamin Moore is sponsored, in part, by the National Culture and Arts Foundation, Taiwan, and the Cultural Affairs Bureau of Taichung, Taiwan, the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC).
