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Installation, LED on Other
Size: 19.7 W x 157.5 H x 39.4 D in
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C + Cu is an approach to understand the physical properties of copper and coal, both minerals which I have taken as objects of landscape subversion. Properties, such as energy conductivity, toxicity, heat, malleability and their combination with each other.
Coal, a resource that has historical, social and geopolitical connotations within Germany, is processed to obtain a briquette, an object of a common pestilence in homes marked by the social history of this country.
Copper, a mineral that has claimed an overspeculation within Chile‘s identity, has not only been the main income of the country, but an element of neoliberal relationship with the rest of the world.
With the formal addition of both minerals, interconnected according to their properties, I intend to bring up a new narrative out of a hybrid object, a graft coming from different seams or sub-contexts, but paradoxically seized as a commodity or a product of massive consumption, away from its original soil.
Exhibited at West Germany (Berlin, 2013), Art Truck - Kunst vor Orten (Berlin, 2014) and Gropius-Bau (Berlin, 2022)
For more information about the show at Gropius Bau: https://www.berlinerfestspiele.de/en/berliner-festspiele/programm/bfs-gesamtprogramm/programmdetail_366493.html
Slide-show video showing the production process in 2022: https://vimeo.com/734027192
Coal briquettes, copper wire, LED 90 pieces - polyptych 2013-2014-2022
Multi-paneled Installation:LED on Other
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:19.7 W x 157.5 H x 39.4 D in
Number of Panels:24
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Michelle-Marie Letelier (Chile, 1977) lives and works in Berlin. Her work orchestrates transformations of natural resources, alongside extensive wide-ranging, interdisciplinary research into the landscapes where their exploitation and speculation take place. Through her work, she places together different epochs, regions and societies, examining political-economic, historical and cultural aspects. Since establishing in Berlin in 2007, she has focused her research on five resources: coal, copper, saltpetre, wind and, more recently, salmon. By applying, mixing and constellating their properties—such as electrical conductivity, crystallisation and agency—, chemical and physical transformation processes produce the artworks themselves, as well as their poiesis, beyond the extractive industry and its forms of control. Michelle-Marie Letelier obtained her Bachelor of Arts from the Universidad Católica de Chile in 2000 and has participated in postgraduate programmes such as Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt art IT (Berlin) and as guest student in the Experimental Media Design studies at the Universität der Künste (Berlin). Her work has been shown internationally in biennials, galleries, museums and institutions, among others: Or Gallery (Vancouver); Gropius-Bau (Berlin); Kunstmuseum Bonn; Stanislavsky Electrotheatre (Moscow); Screen City Biennial 2019 (Stavanger); Bienal Sur 2017 (Buenos Aires); El Museo de Los Sures (New York); Kunsthall 3,14 (Bergen); Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende (Santiago); Errant Bodies (Berlin); Museum of Contemporary Art (Santiago); Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Santiago) and Kommunale Galerie Charlottenburg (Berlin). She has been a resident at ISCP (NYC, 2014), USF (Bergen, 2017), Kunstnerhuset (Svolvær, 2018), Magallanes2020 (Punta Arenas, 2018), ISLA (Antofagasta, 2018) and Troms fylkeskultursenter (Tromsø, 2019).
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