| | This new series continues along the same lines as previous works by the artist: The accumulation of packs of cigarettes (“Lung”), Bank notes (“Todos o cem”) or visiting cards (“Nice to meet you”); common objects which circulate in the daily lives of people, but which, when joined together or displayed in a specific way, bring life to sculptures. As a result, a great artistic potential is discovered through trivial things.
In this exhibit, windshields and window-panes of buses serve as backgrounds for stickers from museums, art fairs, art galleries, packaging or airlines, which are laid out according to their contents and the shapes of the window-panes. To sustain these sculptures, counter-weights are used, allowing for the placement of the window-panes in the gallery space.
Jac Leirner has spent more than twelve years collecting this material and the majority
of her time has been devoted to figuring out how to structure such a fragile material as stickers. Although present in her work, the principal theme is neither globalization nor common places in the art world, but rather the shapes, colors and textures of the stickers and the window-panes along with the emotional references of each of these elements in her pieces.
About Jac Leirner
Jac Leirner (San Pablo 1961) has taken part in the Venice Biennial (1990 and 1997) and Documenta 9. Her work is present in all of the Brazilian and Latin American Art Reviews of the last 20 years including “Museum as Muse: Artists Reflect” –MOMA New York and “Art Lovers” in the Liverpool Biennial in 1999. Recently she participated in the exhibit “Zona F” in Spain (Espai dárt Contemporani de Castelló) and “Transatlantic” (CAAM, Las Palmas).
At the end of the year she will participate in the exhibit “Frictions” included in the project “Versions of the South: Five Proposals Regarding Art in America” which will be held in MNCARS.
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