Video: Dead sculptures by Louie Cordero
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Filipino painter and sculptor Louie Cordero in his work explores the contact between the traditional culture of Southeast Asia, Spanish Catholicism and American pop culture. And it is clear that this contact has not always happened and is happening bloodlessly. This is what is dedicated to a series of his sculptures with the title "My We"presented at the 2011 Singapore Biennale.
In developing countries, under the influx of "strong" foreign cultures, primarily American pop culture, they are being synthesized with local cultures. And this synthesis sometimes takes on rather unusual forms. And the local culture itself suffers because of this. It is transformed beyond recognition, and the national spirit, the national peculiarity of its carriers dies, remaining only to the extent that it would be enough to attract tourists.
Louis Cordero's sculptures from the “My We” series, created for the 2011 Biennale in Singapore, show the process of death of a “little man” from his native Philippines under the external influence of Spanish Catholicism and American pop culture.
This series consists of four sculptures showing the death of a person in the process. On one of them, the man is still on his feet, pierced by various objects, on the second he has already dropped to all fours, on the third he is lying dead on the floor, and on the fourth he is already attached to the wall and put on display.
These sculptures were made in a style that mixed the stylistics of American horror films, heavy metal, comics, Filipino mythological stories and modern Filipino street life.
In addition to these four sculptures, Louis Cordero's “My We” series includes one more. It's a jukebox framed with bones, skulls and images of dead people. Thus, the author recalls people who died in a fight in one of the bars in Manila due to a dispute that arose after someone ordered a Frank Sinatra song "My way", and someone did not like it. By the way, the very title of the exhibition “My We” is a paraphrased title of this famous musical composition.
By the way, this is already the second exhibit of the 2011 Biennale in Singapore, presented on our website. Let us recall the frosty drawings on the windows by Gosia Wlodarczak, which we told you about a few days ago.
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