Conversation 17 by CORINNE DE SAN JOSE
With Conversation 17, CORINNE DE SAN JOSE methodically
wraps everyday objects with fabric, neither to obscure nor hide, but to
transform the materiality of her subjects— hammer, vase, wine
bottle—into objets d’art.
Like her previous exhibit titles, Conversation 17 is a song
reference, a play on the title of a song by The National. She connects the song
to the idea of suffering from oblivion, or losing identity, grasping to control
how your surroundings affect you.
The subjects are all concealed, completely wrapped, but
there is no doubt as to what they are. By wrapping, their essential form is
revealed rather than concealed. She has picked the most mundane of objects,
binds it so that we will never know of its make or type. The selection is
deliberate; we easily associate these objects with gender—from the sharp
phallic tools to the curvy and round vessels. In the final process, the only
visible layer is what we would easily associate with the feminine—floral fabric
set against another floral fabric. Layer upon layer, the juxtaposition is at
once jarring and beautiful.
But it’s the patterns of fabric that have a mesmeric
effect, like staring into a stereogram. We are drawn in to look a few seconds
longer than we originally intended, the clashing prints a visual, tactile
overload, a still life that demands more of your time.
To wrap something is also to protect it, and the impulse to
protect, to heighten that which is basic or essential is perhaps the strongest
conceptual link to CORINNE’s past works.
Conversation 17 by CORINNE DE SAN JOSE opens on 10 January
2013 simultaneously with Mirages by ALLAN BALISI & Site of Marks by ERIC
ZAMUCO. All shows run until 9 February 2013 at Silverlens at 2/F YMC Bldg., II,
2320 Pasong Tamo Ext., Makati
Gallery hours are Monday to Friday from 10am to 7pm and
Saturdays from 1 to 6pm.
www.silverlensgalleries.com / facebook.com/slgalleries
Words by Monster Jimenez and Mario Cornejo
Words by Monster Jimenez and Mario Cornejo
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