Series: Manufracture
Title: Personal Security Fence
Year: 2016
Medium: installation | stainless steel fence, C-print(or metal print), paint, wooden pedestal, frame, accessories, live performance.
Dimension: variable (entire installation), 30 x 30 x 56 in (sculpture), 30 x 20 in (photograph), 40 min (performance)
As part of Manufracture Series, I continue to investigate the segregated—yet inseparable—relationships between manufacturing and art making. I collaborated with a local fabrication shop to customize a personal security fence made of stainless steel fence commonly used for homes in Queens and Brooklyn. I then invited artist Colby Cannon Welsh, working as both and artist and laborer, to perform during the opening of my exhibition Bread, Steel, and Benjamin Moore. During the performance, he painted the wall into the same shade of blue as the pedestal that he painted earlier. I use this blue color to reference to one of the background tones we often see in the museums when classical paintings or objects of baroque style are on exhibit. Throughout the process, I reposition common goods into high-end artwork and portray it in a photograph as a classical masterpiece in a museum.
