Pirámide
Ilán Lieberman
05 Marzo de 2010 - 09 Mayo de 2010
Espacio de exhibición: Cubo
Curaduría: Taiyana Pimentel
Ilán Lieberman crafts detailed reproductions as strategies for recovering the social memory. Pyramid is projected as a sculptural portrait of a country’s everyday urban life, a sort of self-contained reply to what is observed in the social sphere.
The artist takes up the architectural structure of the pyramid from the Classic Mesoamerican period and pays a tongue-in-cheek tribute to two building phenomena linked to our culture: the superposition and imposition of new buildings over previous constructions, as well as the tradition of keeping dwellings in a state of perpetual construction.
By superimposing building elements and contemporary organizations associated with the lack of urban law and order, the work approaches the culture of self-protection as an issue of social and political immediacy.
Each floor of the pyramid represents an era: from rock walls to jagged glass taken from broken glasses, barbed wire, electrified wire, surveillance cameras and electric lighting. Every level refers to a new stage in the struggle for citizens’ safety and an exponential need for protection.
Lieberman uses these illusory mechanisms of popular civil protection to make a sharp comment on the way each new structure is imposed on the previous one with the false premise and barefaced pretense of security.