Description of artwork: Jac Leirner collects ephemeral byproducts of consumer culture like cigarette packs, devalued paper currencies, business cards, envelopes, and plastic bags. She uses these to make her sculptures and installations. Leirner sorts and organizes these everyday items, which often have personal significance, to emphasize their multiple, serial nature. Through her interventions and manipulations she transfers the materials from the circuits of capitalist consumption to those of cultural consumption.
Some of Leirner’s works with plastic bags are placed on the floor or suspended from the ceiling. Here, however, a collection of blue bags is mounted on the wall. Sewn together side to side, they form a monochromatic arc reminiscent of a simple shape utilized by painters from the 1950s to the 1970s. Leirner’s formal deliberations on repetition, space, shape, and color are brought to the fore in Azuis.
(Source: Catalogue for the exhibition Portadores de sentido) Installation Shot:Installation view of the exhibition Portadores de sentido: Contemporary Art from the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros at the Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico (February 9–July 22, 2019).
Artist:
Jac Leirner
Title:
Azuis [Blues]
Date:
1990
Materials:
Plastic bags and polyester foam
Dimensions:
150 x 420 cm (59 1/16 x 165 ⅜ inches)
Artist:
Jac Leirner
Title:
Azuis [Blues]
Date:
1990
Materials:
Plastic bags and polyester foam
Dimensions:
150 x 420 cm (59 1/16 x 165 ⅜ inches)
Description of artwork: Jac Leirner collects ephemeral byproducts of consumer culture like cigarette packs, devalued paper currencies, business cards, envelopes, and plastic bags. She uses these to make her sculptures and installations. Leirner sorts and organizes these everyday items, which often have personal significance, to emphasize their multiple, serial nature. Through her interventions and manipulations she transfers the materials from the circuits of capitalist consumption to those of cultural consumption.
Some of Leirner’s works with plastic bags are placed on the floor or suspended from the ceiling. Here, however, a collection of blue bags is mounted on the wall. Sewn together side to side, they form a monochromatic arc reminiscent of a simple shape utilized by painters from the 1950s to the 1970s. Leirner’s formal deliberations on repetition, space, shape, and color are brought to the fore in Azuis.
(Source: Catalogue for the exhibition Portadores de sentido) Installation Shot:Installation view of the exhibition Portadores de sentido: Contemporary Art from the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros at the Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico (February 9–July 22, 2019).
