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June 25, 2009

"Saccharum BA" exhibition in Brazil

Exhibition in Salvador, Brazil at Museum of Modern Art of Bahia
from June 15 - July 30, 2009.
For more images and information, check out the project blog:

www.consumptuous.com/blog









May 28, 2009

New blog!!

For upcoming projects I have a new blog. The information on this blog will stay here for the time being. Check out the new one for all kinds of behind-the-scene images and information:

www.consumptuous.com/blog

January 18, 2009

For good measure

After my mural installation in Salvador, I had an obscene amount of icing left over. I couldn't very well through it out, so I decided to do a intervention in Itaparica for fun. One night, I went out to do this "throw up" on an abandoned building. Soon after I began, a couple of teenagers stopped to see what I was doing. My friend Liane explained while I carried on working. They were really intrigued, and stayed to watch and hang out. Coincidentally, one of them remembered a sugar installation I did 3 years ago. Slowly, a few of their friends showed up, and they too, stayed to watch. By the end, about 2 hours later, there were about 10 teenagers, surrounding me, sitting on the sidewalk and the street. They waited until I finished, and then everyone left.
This photo is of the early stages, when it was just me and the first of my fans.







As luck would have it, it rained the same night that I installed it. So the next day I went back to document it. I really wasn't expecting anything to be left, but surprisingly, it was still mostly in tact.











All good things come to those who wait...

Yes, indeed, you will have to wait to see more photos of this installation...
The mural lasted about one month, doing things I hadn't expected. I returned every 3 or 4 days, depending on the rainfall, and documented it's fall from grace. I'm currently in the process of editing those photos and video footage and will wait until I have an exhibition to reveal them.

Until then...

December 14, 2008

The Wealth of Some and the Ruin of Others

Installing the mural in the street...



Each sugar tile was applied with royal icing as glue.






These are my security guards




This guy worked across the street and he kept trying to get people walking by to taste the sugar. This woman was a good sport and tried. Most people thought he was pulling a prank and were too afraid to taste it.








Crack filling



Piping the border:



Drumroll.... here it is....

Exhibition at Galeria Pierre Verger in Salvador, Bahia

This is a ceramic installation of terracotta tiles I made in Canada and brought with me. The images are a combination of imagery relating to the history of sugar, colonization and slavery.





Photos of previous installations I did in Brazil.




Installing the show... with much help from my friends. The gallery didn´t really do anything for the show. It´s the end of the season, and so they have no money left in the budget! We had to do everything ourselves. Luckily, it was a pretty straight-forward install.







December 3, 2008

More progress shots

All of the painting is now done. I´m just waiting until next week to install it. I found a wall that I think will work well. It wasn´t my first choice for location, but it´s close to the gallery, so that was the deciding factor. I decided it was more strategic to choose a location close to the gallery so that people wouldn´t have to go to 2 locations. The tiles are now stacked, and awaiting for their new home...