THE
HAT
Jasmina Llobet
Luis Fernández Pons
c/ EMBAJADORES, 226
23 March- 20 April
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THE HAT
Our project consists of an architectural construction
in the form of a big cowboy hat. The material we use will be the
typical red brickstone, which is so frequently seen in buildings
in the periphery of Madrid. The work will take place in a wasteland
in Legazpi. We deliberately flew from an urbanized space like
a square or underground station. Wastelands belong to the public
space although we usually don’t visit them and, even less,
spend time there. It is part of the public space, inhospitable,
desolated, an urban desert.
Its size as well as the materials and the location of the hat
are proper features of an architectural construction. Nevertheless,
the fact that it has no access to the interior reveals it as a
non-habitable space. The work avails itself of architectural form
and material in order to establish a dialogue between the city
and its buildings. The idea of this project is to create a work
in concordance with the urban context of Arganzuela, a funny but
also respectful work, a play upon similarities and urban languages
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Jasmina Llobet (1978, Barcelona), Luis Fernández Pons (1979, Madrid).
We are two visual artist from Spain working together in
Berlin since 2002.
We have frequently worked in collaborative projects with sociologists,
architects and artists. We work together combining installation,
photography and video. We generally begin with a haphazard visual
and theoretical research, which we call the “crazy-sociologist”
method. Through this research, and a process of dialogue, the
main interests and possible aims of the work are (if there are
any!) come to light. We approach in equal measure important or
banal matters of society, while frequently making use of humour
and irony. Our dialogue and playful investigation lead to the
materialization of simple interventions, small objects and new
inventions, using materials ranging from kitchen objects and cheap
veneer to business coaching workshops and police promotional videos.
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