Paint Job Galerie Klubovna / BRNO (Czech Republic) 28.02.2018 – 25.03.2018 Viltė Bražiūnaitė’s and Tomas Sinkevičius’ art practice looks at how late capitalism and
automation have created a new mode of subjectivity – a form of life whose conditions are
not determined by its own physical needs, but established by demands of global capital.
In the exhibition ”Paint Job” at Klubovna gallery, the duo creates an undefined industrial
environment that confronts the representation of organic bodies: their traces, their loss,
their needs. In “Paint Job”, movements of blue-collar workers and farmed salmon are
prompted by the rhythms of production and exploitation. The installation appropriates
shapes and high-energy colours that have been manipulated by contemporary consumer
culture in order to facilitate faster customer turnover and product desirability.
The video of the floating 3D necklace explores the relationship that material and object
have to social class and the body that wears it, while the colors of the aluminium
sculptures, selected from the standardised color set “SalmoFan”, address the artificial
colouring used in aquaculture to imitate the colour that biodiversity would normally provide
in the wild. It becomes increasingly difficult to judge if we are triggered solely by a
product’s engineered shape and colour, or if what we are experiencing is the result of our
bodies and their natural and cultural histories. Curated by Tereza Záchová |