Year: 2021

Medium: Mixed media installation, durational performance

Dimensions: 24’ x 23’ x 22’4”, 24 days

'Perishables or (Provisional Balance in Continuous Construction)' is an installation and durational performance where objects are moved throughout the exhibition and arranged over pallets on the border of collapse. As a result, this work is a situation that unfolds and evolves in time; here, there is no final product but rather a constant re-construction and re-definition of the artwork.


This project aims to bring attention to the precarious balance built over the objects' symbolic associations. For this purpose, 'Perishables' is a chance game with rules set to randomly choose the objects and allow physical conditions –such as weight and gravity– to define their relations. I used a spinning wheel as a chance occurrence device to decide the movements and activation of the work's components. Additionally, I sourced the objects through a public announcement inviting friends to donate ordinary things. With this act, I was looking to expand and challenge the selection of objects by introducing things that were out of my decision-making.