Johanna Unzueta

bringing the public into contact with the artwork. Making the art work accessible to the public. The work of Johanna Unzueta (1976) at Die Ecke is in tune with this trend. The NewYork based artist is one of the new names that has gained international renown. Her proposal generally plays with the exhibition spaces, imitating architectonic structures with materials such as fabrics and felts, midway between sculpture and site specific works. Prados de nieve (Snow Meadows) appears to be the reconstruction of something like an abandoned camp, in which the centerpiece is an “inhabitable” house tent made from a canvas embroidered with insects’ wings. Outside this structure, straw bundles, a ladder leaning against the wall and resting on the floor on top of a heap of nut peelings, drawings featuring more insects’ flies, and of course objects and pipes made from hand-sewn natural felt, present a neuter tonality that combines ochers, beiges and whites that is in tune with the brightness of the room. This is an experience involving the fragile, the invisible and absence; the body tours the place and then leaves. The objects in this settlement remain as vestiges of great visual neatness and cleanliness, with common references, but perplexed at the lack of naturalness. The technological character is tensioned by the warmth of the materials and the manual intervention. Architecture and human body intersect in a rare intermediary state: in the everyday object manipulated by plays of scale and the rupture with materiality, also by the muteness of this landscape where the human element is just a trace.