Vincenzo Fiore Marrese

Critical Journey

An automobile repair shop becomes an artistic environment, carrying an imaginary journey through advanced technologies and miners’ issues.

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Artwork Details

• Title:
  Critical Journey
• Year:
  2023
• Medium (Type of Art):
  Art Environment
• Medium (Unique Feature):
  Subtle Habitat
• Medium (Materials):
  artificial intelligence, found objects, earth, artificial turf made by polypropylene and polyester fibers, acrylic paint, synthetic pigment, ink, electrical tape, tape, silicon sheet, PVC hemisphere, polyurethane foam sheet, laminated plywood panel, metal sawhorses, typewriter, inkjet prints on paper, artificial feathers, twine, acrylic-polyurethane varnish
• Dimensions (International):
  50 square meters room
• Dimensions (British and US):
  538.196 square feet room
• Venue:
  Adlerhalle, Dragonerareal, Berlin, Germany
• Setting:
  within the frame of “Collectiveness In Space,” in the context of Experimentdays Relaunch, in cooperation with Zusammenstelle and Rathausblock, curatorial program Mayer Pavilion

Establishing Context

There are materials that technology needs and cannot be easily substituted [note 1], namely critical resources. “Critical Journey” is about it. The focus is on the human rights challenges faced by individuals engaged in the mining process of these materials.

This topic creatively blends with the idea of a journey. That’s the reason for the title. The idea came from a 1903 book. The book narrates a journey featuring an antique car. The same company that owns the shop crafted the vintage vehicle.

This detail provided the glue to construct the new meaning embedded in the artwork.

Notes

1. Overland, I. (2019). The geopolitics of renewable energy: Debunking four emerging myths. Energy Research & Social Science, 49, 36-40. ISSN 2214-6296. DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2018.10.018. back to the text