Untitled (Structures), 2014
Crystallization on glass and structures, Installation, Dimensions variable
The premise of my intervention in Fundación Proa’s Contemporary Space is observing the architecture of La Boca and connecting it to my art and its concerns.
My project has two parts:
First, I wrap the building’s three main columns in a structure made from construction iron, wire mesh, papier mâché, and plaster to soften the rigid and polished architecture. This intervention is related to Proa’s surroundings as well, where the constructions that once formed a rigid grid are now, due to corrosion by time and weather, softened and inclined.
The other component consists of using an impermanent saline solution to frost the museum’s large windows yielding an arch reminiscent of the windows of the old buildings in La Boca. The impermanent and fragile nature of the material is tied to the ghostly quality of the neighborhood and its old and worn architecture. Much of the architecture that I see as I walk around the neighborhood evidences fragility along with the steadfast efforts of its inhabitants to ingeniously keep the structures standing.
I might produce this component of the work, which also partakes of the idea of softening the museum’s rigid forms, on the same floor as the columns or on the lower level, on the windows that open up onto the bookstore.
Diana Drake.
Buenos Aires, 1984.
Es egresada de la carrera de Artes Visuales (IUNA). Durante el 2004 obtiene una beca de mérito para estudiar en Parsons School of Design, New York y en el 2008 viaja nuevamente para estudiar en el Art Students League de la misma ciudad. En el 2010 inicia estudios en la Licenciatura en filosofía de la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Participa de diferentes muestras inviduales y colectivas y en premios universitarios y nacionales entre los cuales se destacan: selección Premio Fundación Williams de Arte Joven (2012), Salón Prilidiano Pueyrredón (2009, 2011); galería Miau Miau (2013) y Reis Studios, NY (2014). Individualmente expuso en Buenos Aires en la galería Isla Flotante (2012). Participa en el Barrio Joven de la Feria ArteBA 2011-2012 y en la Feria Scope Miami 2013. Trabaja en colaboraciones con artistas de diferentes disciplinas, en proyectos colectivos y publicaciones de diversa índole. Vive y trabaja en Buenos Aires.