Alozie Onyirioha
Shreds in space
2009
720cmx260cmx260cm
Saturday, February 28, 2009
SHREDS IN SPACE
SHREDS IN SPACE
This work consists of shredded water bottle container weaved together with a synthetic twine and stretched on a house like metal structure, measuring 720cm x 260cm x 260cm in a space. The original idea behind this work is to create a structure that will house my exhibited works, thereby saving money and providing me with a free exhibition space that will give people the opportunity to view my works from an advantageous perspective and position. To further elaborate on this, the purpose of shredding office paper is to protect or destroy information for security reasons whether personal or corporate we experience a feeling of comfort in knowing that the shredded information is safe. This comfort owes its place to the apparent belief that the destroyed information would become irretrievable, especially to those who do not already know, even when it is reassembled by one means or the other. Often the method of discard is of no consequence to the disposer especially. As a result these shreds easily find space lying and littering our environments. Ultimately I am engaged in exploring and addressing the nuances of this spatial conflict, this war of space between us and our discarded materials.
This work consists of shredded water bottle container weaved together with a synthetic twine and stretched on a house like metal structure, measuring 720cm x 260cm x 260cm in a space. The original idea behind this work is to create a structure that will house my exhibited works, thereby saving money and providing me with a free exhibition space that will give people the opportunity to view my works from an advantageous perspective and position. To further elaborate on this, the purpose of shredding office paper is to protect or destroy information for security reasons whether personal or corporate we experience a feeling of comfort in knowing that the shredded information is safe. This comfort owes its place to the apparent belief that the destroyed information would become irretrievable, especially to those who do not already know, even when it is reassembled by one means or the other. Often the method of discard is of no consequence to the disposer especially. As a result these shreds easily find space lying and littering our environments. Ultimately I am engaged in exploring and addressing the nuances of this spatial conflict, this war of space between us and our discarded materials.
SHREDDED TRAIL OF UNCERTAINTIES
Alozie Onyirioha
beer can, fruit drink can, can coke,
360cmx120cmx14cm
2009
SHREDDED TRAIL OF UNCERTAINTIES
SHREDDED TRAIL OF UNCERTAINTIES
This work consists of an assemblage of shredded beer cans like fruit drinks, canned coke, etc of different colures that I cut in a flower like shape, measuring 360cm x 120cm x 14cm in variable dimensions arranged within the exhibition space.
In this work I tried to examine the factors that define the concept of the abuse of space and the resultant conflicts that are triggered between the consumers of these products and the nonchalantly discarded cans or packages of these products after these consumers must have exhausted their contents. This struggle for the occupation of space occurs when these discarded items litter the environment and threaten the aesthetic state of the environment. I also encountered, in the process of creating this assemblage, the problem of uncertainty in the sense that the final outlook of the work was not preconceived. This trail of uncertainty was also evident while I was gathering these ordinary discarded tin containers. The nature of the found items sort of dictated the creative process, so that the continual interaction between medium and I was sustained. It was a deliberate approach; one which I hoped will be contagious, in the sense that the viewer of these works will be invited into that interaction.