Descripción de la Exposición
The work of Ana Genovés operates between the boundaries of making, faking and destruction. Her 'failed geometric' forms echo the shapes and textures of the objects with which we arrange and order our social and civil space, that she sees as often defaulting to the logic of geometry to suggest an appearance or aesthetic of control. The ambiguous functionality of her objects, their surfaces suggestive of entropic processes, undermine this attempt at control, and reveal a futile binary opposition of intention and inevitability.
Genovés is inspired and informed by an obsessively collected file of strange photographs. These are hoarded and repeatedly consulted - a kind of personal sculptural pornography - revealing the vernacular sources of some of her forms and methodologies. The objects and architectures she draws on originate in diverse cultural sources and include mini-golf, roadside shrines, communal wash rooms, lookout towers, and indecipherable broken forms. They are usually dirty, unloved and in some stage of advanced decay.
In her new work for Standpoint Genovés also comments on the peculiarities and failings of the architecture: the untidy gaps above false walls that reveal the building’s original cornice work, the abandoned attempts to achieve a right angle at a wall edge, the lumpy RSJs which divide up the ceiling-space. And in their subtly emotive surfaces that implausibly feel clothed or naked, the viewer is reminded that despite our self-elevated status as ‘subjects’ in this world we are subject to all the same material entropy as every other object.
Exposición. 17 dic de 2024 - 16 mar de 2025 / Museo Picasso Málaga / Málaga, España
Formación. 01 oct de 2024 - 04 abr de 2025 / PHotoEspaña / Madrid, España
