Video: Reflections on social structure in installations by Jaime Pitarcha
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The Spaniard Jaime Pitarch is convinced that people first come up with certain orders and structures, and then throughout their lives try to fit into them and conform to them. This is what his work is about, combining photography, sculpture, video, drawing and installation.
According to Jaime Pitarch, in the broadest sense, his work is about the inability of human beings to identify themselves with the structures that they themselves create. The feeling of loss or inconsistency felt when faced with these structures (regardless of what they are called - culture, religion, society), makes a person interpret the world and himself, intuitively trying to fit into the existing order. These useless actions change human destinies, and the author sees a special beauty in this.
In his works, the author uses things created by people, which he divides into parts and restores anew, and new objects are often completely non-functional. Pitarch explores the possibilities of linking the order of "physical things" with more abstract orders (politics, economics, etc.), and in his installations "physical things" reflect a reality that "does not suit" and disorients us. “My works are directly concerned with the contradictions between distrust of social structure and our desire to fit into it. I address these contradictions by observing the order that underpins any form of production and try to find commonalities between the design of a chair, for example, and the design of a political or economic strategy,”says Jaime.
Jaime Pitarch was born in 1963 in Barcelona. He was educated in London, graduating from Chelsea College of Art (1993, bachelor's) and Royal College of Art (1995, master's). Personal exhibitions of his works were held in France, Spain, Great Britain, Sweden, USA.
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