HITOS DE NUESTRA MEMORIA, an art exhibition curated by Celestino Hernández and made possible by Cámara de Comercio de Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
Artists:
Juan Gopar
José Herrera
Emilia Martín Fierro
Juan Matos Capote
Juan Matos Capote
"7 GEOMETRIC DESIGNS TO BETTER SERVE SOCIETY (PLANS OF TABLE ARRANGEMENTS IN NEW YORK CITY RESTAURANTS)" (detail)
2008
Vinyl on used and washed cotton restaurant napkins.
7 pieces, 50 x 46 cm each. 50 x 382 cm overall.
7 designs (in different colors) of table placements in New York City's restaurants (in some of which the artist, as well as other immigrant fellows, worked).
Juan Matos Capote
GOLD & NOISE
2008
"Rich Gold" oil paint on used cardboard box, cardboard boxes, scavenged speakers, cables, 2 audio channel CD, CD player.
32 x 140 x 115 cm approximately.
Scavenged speakers implanted into two cardboard boxes used by the artist in his move from New York City to Barcelona (Spain).
A two-channel Audio CD played through a Discman CD player and connected to the two speaker cardboard boxes.
- Right channel: Fellow immigrant voices that work in New York City restaurants are heard, telling their own experiences of crossing the US-Mexico border. This right-channel cardboard box is painted in "Rich Gold" color. Through this channel immigrants' point of view is heard, who think of the new country as an opportunity to enrich their lives.
- Left channel: The same told experiences from the right channel, but processed and transformed into noise, are heard. This left-channel cardboard box has been left in its natural state, without paint (showing its worn state by its shipping from New York to Barcelona). Through this channel the society's point of view is heard, which thinks of immigrants as noise that must be silenced (by deporting or naturalizing).
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