"We intend to expand the practice of appropriation to the things of the world, to the streets vacant lots, fields, the environment, things that would not be transportable, but that would invite the public to participate. This would be a fatal blow to the concept of the museum, art gallery, etc.., While the concept of "exposure." Either we change it, or remain as we are. The museum is the world of everyday experience. "
Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla have been working together since 1995, often deepening the space between sculpture, performance, architecture, and social or public intervention. In his work trying to provide ways to reflect the complex intersection of politics global and personal identity. Often interactive work using the little used (the secret desires positions on the roofs of a building to be seen by passengers on a plane), the unexpected (a board game of tennis video painted on the floor of a court real tennis), and the check (the blinds of the office window showing different realities seeing them open and closed according to the movement of pedestrians outside, thus redirecting observation).
Through the work infused with a rich democratic impulse, seek public expression. For the project CHALK, Artists put huge chunks of chalk in public spaces such as squares and invite people to leave their marks, ranging from political protests to spontaneous drawings, each moving and transient expression of a specific time, place, and individual within a collective field.
"CHALK (Lima)" 1998 -2002 12 chalk 64 x 8 inches in diameter each. Installation: Pasaje Santa Rosa, Biennial of Lima, Peru.
"We were interested in the fact that the chalk is a tool, something that is in the classroom. It is also a geological substance, found naturally in soil. By its nature, is ephemeral and fragile. It is a beautiful white cloud, low and very clean but, paradoxically, may also have a dirty connotation because it is used to mark a surface. This was interesting, how this material could be symbolic, iconic, and nothing in itself. He was trying to think about reconciling a minimalist or made of this material and make it available to the public to see what could unfold. "
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