alejandra prieto

Air Classic

2009
Coal, copper, iron
14 x 14 x 6 in.
To handle

2010
Coal
14 x 6 x 1/4 in.
Les Jardinieres du Roy

2009
Coal
16 x 16 x 1/4 in.
Coal Mirror

2011
Coal, iron
118 x 72 x 6 in.
Black Tears

2011
Coal, iron, bulbs
62 x 40 x 40 in.

January 01, 2012 - April 30, 2012

chile

In her work, Alejandra Prieto experiments with different materials and media — digital photography, sculpture, and video — while focusing mostly on representations of highly fashionable commodity objects, such as designer furniture, shoes, and clothing accessories. Her work interrogates our everyday approach to these kinds of objects by denaturalizing their production, distribution, and consumption and disrupting our everyday relationships with them through the different materials she employs, such as coal and perishable foods. Her work with coal, in particular, makes use of the different meanings of this material in contemporary society. Coal represents hard labor, production, and all the historical processes related to these phenomena. In shaping coal in the form of Nike sneakers or a Hèrmes scarf, for example, the artist makes visible the processes hidden by consumption circuits and the strategies of display related to consumption spaces.

Alejandra Prieto (born 1980, Santiago, Chile) studied her BFA at PUC University of Chile and MFA at the University of Chile. She has exhibited nationally and internationally in group exhibitions, including MAC USP - Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de Sâo Paulo; Roebling Hall Gallery, NY; OTR Gallery, Madrid; 7th Mercosur Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brasil; and VI International Biennial SIART, La Paz, Bolivia. She will participate in the 11th Havana Biennale, Cuba, and will have her first solo exhibition in New York at Y Gallery.

http://www.alejandraprieto.cl