Framing Time 5
2019 - Sculpture (Sculpture)
60 x 59 x 5 cm
Diego Bianchi
Diego Bianchi’s main concern is distorting straight lines, both literally and metaphorically. To him, deviation is the only feasible strategy to allow the unexpected to happen, making space for semantic turns, impossible encounters, and dissolving binaries. The bodily dimension appears in his art both as disturbance of the senses and perception, and as research into processes of consumerism, oppression, decomposition, and destruction. In the sculpture Framing Time 5 Bianchi’s investigation on the ambiguous relationship between pleasure and power takes shape in an unusually elegant composition that dismantles and reconfigures the male body, and consequently, the illusion of control. Hanging on the wall, and still holding the elements that make it readable as a frame, the work interrogates the structures that imposed and still depend on the sexed-gendered character of the body and its regulations.
Since the early 2000s, Diego Bianchi has captured the atmosphere of a generation forged under a chronic state of crisis and precariousness in South America. This mood was—and still is—paradoxically paired with an energetic DIY methodology and a willingness to create new forms of living in dire contexts. Bianchi’s peculiar visual vocabulary, his sculptures being the best example, unfolds from a thorough and playful investigation on the relationship between bodies and objects; desires and devices; the material causes of the Anthropocene; and the purges of financial capitalism in the outskirts of the Western world. Bianchi severs, displaces, and recombines items that are mostly perceived as disposable, invigorating them with anthropomorphic qualities. In his work, an often abject corporeality emerges from a combination of machine and technological elements, and an amalgam of mostly synthetic materials that resemble pieces of flesh or limbs. Power structures and oppression mechanisms come under his scrutiny; while sociological observation of a state of crisis contorts into an eerie and highly sensorial ambient.
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