my best friend introduced me to lucy orta after my discussion on an concept of making a tent.. i then found these cloud works which fascinated and inspired..
window on the world
Concept: The cloud is an intermediary between
two worlds. Its airy lightness and gas give free rein to the
architectural imagination, whilst its liquid composition returns it to
earth. The cloud, by virtue of its ubiquity, is an intercessor between
reality and imagination, between heaven and earth, light and gravity.
The absence of a stable form, which characterizes the cloud, is a
powerful concept that embodies, with its dreams, the designs for an
ideal society. Playing on its metamorphoses, it can convey, in the mode
of fable, a more political message without gravity. Here, the message
focuses on water, from which clouds are constituted, by asking how
humans will share this resource on earth. Philipe Potié
During a research trip to Cairo, Egypt in 2009 Lucy + Jorge Orta visited
the Zabbaleen community who live on the garbage mountain of Moqattam.
65,000 people live off this refuse sorting, sifting, classifying the
city’s waste: bottles, plastic jerry cans, fabric, cardboard. Reflecting
on the sheer volume of the debris and in particular the plastic water
container, they began assembling recycled water bottles. The resulting
Cloud sculptures are the second phase of their project
OrtaWater
where the artists' research shifts from water distribution to that of
the consumer object: on the one hand a vital commodity for the recycling
community and on the other a disastrous pollutant on the environment.
"Assembled with thousands of found water bottles, the resin contours of
these new organic shapes create crevices and shadows of their former
identity. Objects are incrusted into in these strange organic
structures: remnants of a former household, a fisherman's boat, ladder,
bicycle, chair.
Clouds are reminders of the cycles and fragility of life.” Lucy Orta\
Robin Cameron takes the time to process, practice, and play. Collected here are many of Cameron’s works in ‘Process’ (as categorized on her website), a glimpse of the way she studies her objects, moves them around, and explores their range of reactions to the many mediums she works in, from clay to 16mm film. Cameron states she’s “interested in the work of Romantic Conceptualists, and the extent to which conceptual art, or any art object, can carry emotion.” She lives and works in NYC.
