This side up
82.7 x 23.6 x 11.8 in
Reconstituted wood, polyethylene foam, paint, 3D modeling in plastic, resin, dust, spray paint
2022
This side up
82.7 x 23.6 x 11.8 in
Reconstituted wood, polyethylene foam, paint, 3D modeling in plastic, resin, dust, spray paint
2022
This side up
82.7 x 23.6 x 11.8 in
Reconstituted wood, polyethylene foam, paint, 3D modeling in plastic, resin, dust, spray paint
2022
This side up
82.7 x 23.6 x 11.8 in
Reconstituted wood, polyethylene foam, paint, 3D modeling in plastic, resin, dust, spray paint
2022
This side up
82.7 x 23.6 x 11.8 in
Reconstituted wood, polyethylene foam, paint, 3D modeling in plastic, resin, dust, spray paint
2022
This side up
5 1.2 x 11.8 x 11.8 in
MDF, white glue, sawdust
2022
This side up
5 1.2 x 11.8 x 11.8 in
MDF, white glue, sawdust
2022
This side up
Installation view
2022
This side up
94.5 x 9.8 x 13.8 in
Wood, 3D printed plastic, paint, resin, carpet, watercolor on paper
2022
This side up
94.5 x 9.8 x 13.8 in
Wood, 3D printed plastic, paint, resin, carpet, watercolor on paper
2022
Care Methodologies
Handle objects with both hands. Flex fingers inward toward the palm. Always carry the piece upright.
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Allegories of Wrapping
Use wooden crates for large objects and long transports. Bubble wrap (“pluribol”) for framed works. Add soft padding—such as foam—between the piece and any rough edges or impacts from the world.
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Conservation Chants
Hands emit oils that can stain paintings, sculptures, antique swords, or archival paper. To handle, touch, or push, both hands must be covered with latex or cotton gloves.
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Remnants of the Task
Each hole drilled in wall or wood will produce the exact volume of dust it displaced—sometimes clustered, but usually loose.
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Caresses to the Sensitive
While moving a work from one spot in the gallery to another, the piece reveals to the installer the exposed or messy back, the uneven base, or the barely perceptible flutter of some part. Over fifteen days of installation, installer and artwork will be the only ones to touch—and be touched by—each other.
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Distant Anecdotes
“I was hammering hooks in a collector’s living room. I struck a blow, the vibration traveled through the brick and loosened the wire loop holding a framed drawing across the room. One side of the wire gave way, the drawing swung and knocked down the piece below, which smashed against the floor. The glass shattered into pieces. The collector’s Dalmatians came running, stepped unknowingly on the shards, and with bloodied paws stained the polar‑bear‑print rug.”
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Diplomacy in Disappointment
The installer is intensely exposed to artworks and can’t help but feel—whether in the freight elevator transporting a Warhol or elsewhere—a sense of failure. (Though unverified, it’s commonly held that most installers are artists who learned the craft as an offshoot of their artistic practice and social circles.) A curator may spot the unrecognized installer exiting the elevator and ask, “You’re an artist too, right?”
Belén Coluccio
june 2022
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