Varying dimensions.
“Unclassified” was created in the USA for the exhibition “The Latin American Artists of the 20th Century” at The MOMA in NYC.
The piece is made of industrial scrap stainless steel, which supports and interacts with airplane parts, leftovers from the American military industry.
At the time, there was a lot of talk about the excess in the American military industry.
The artist asked permission from the US state department, which granted it, and provided these airplane parts to be used in the work.
Frida Baranek
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1961
She currently lives and works in Lisbon and in Rio de Janeiro
http://www.fridabaranek.com
Frida Baranek has a bachelor’s degree in architecture and industrial Design.
From the very beginning of her career, the relationship she establishes with the materials she uses in her works consists in challenging their resistance to achieve her metamorphosis: to build with and against herself.
Establishing relationships between materials, within the premise that nothing exists in isolation because perception is always made in relation to something; perceiving and imagining are two ways of thinking in which the artist builds her web of interactions.
The world is constantly interacting, impermanent and uncertain. “Unclassified” approaches nature as a forest of industrial remnants with its strength, fragility, and uncertainty.
(Photo: Frederico Mendes)
