25/04/2024
How to rebuild a city with Karam Alkatlabe
Débora Delmar’s work investigates the effects of globalisation on everyday life in relationship to consumer culture and aspirational aesthetics. She is particularly focused on the societal effects of globalisation such as issues of class and cultural hegemony, as well as the homogenisation of corporate aesthetics. Delmar creates multi-sensory installations that are commonly composed of different elements, these include fabricated and appropriated objects.
The L.U.X.U.R.Y Time series (clocks) are a playful appropriation and re-presentation of aspects of our everyday realities through the use of international brands and things associated with habits of consumption. These works directly bring together object form, image and time. Through this efficient assemblage they present diverse temporalities and realities, and it is through their repetition and insistence they come to speak of scheduling, timetabling, the anxieties of time (and ageing), and situations of labour as well as perceptions of aspiration, value and ownership.
The clocks are juxtaposed with works from the Canto (Mayfair Businessmen) series, composed of off-cut fabrics that Delmar has collected from Saville Row tailors. These are sewn and stretched and come to resemble Barnett Newman's Canto series of paintings. These investigate certain power relations, hierarchies and networks.
The exhibition forms part of the WOLFSON EXPLORES |Transformation| programme for 2019.
