Carcass prêt-à-porter

Reflection on the usefulness of art towards the frenzy of life. This work emerges from the abstract concept of artistic uselessness, since by definition art has no specific function and is framed in an abstract context where it is paradoxically necessary. Today’s rhythms are more and more frantic, the movements faster and more frequent, we are no longer autochthonous, we leave our lands and travel. We leave everything, but we would like to take something with us. It is here that art becomes necessity, in the strength of the values it transmits that allow us to feel at home almost anywhere. “Carcassa prêt-à-porter” accompanies us everywhere – day and night (with a phosphorescent effect that lights up in the dark). I see a person travelling for work, with his old and worn-out suitcase, who enters the hotel and assembles his own “work of art” – he even chooses the colour … like if it were a tie. The gold one or the one for the evening?

The work is composed of several elements that can be assembled as desired. A kit contains 4 carcass heads and a cranial helmet with horns. Realization in wood, clay matrix moulds, silicone moulds and diplast castings, acrylic and phosphorescent colours, polyester resin coating.