THE SMELL OF DEPOSITION

EXHIBITION AND BOOK. ONOMATOPEE, EINDHOVEN, NL. 14 February- 15 April 2010

60 gouache paintings on paper of standing monuments to uprisings, riots and revolutions.

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The Smell of Deposition

Keffiyeh, كوفية‎, from Israel, H&M, Egypt, Palestine, Syria and Iraq.


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Aeron Bergman (US) and Alejandra Salinas (ES) made gouache drawings of multiple monuments of revolutions worldwide. Each drawing represents
not only the specific reason d’être of each monument but also a variety of styles, commissioners, crafts, eras and political outcomes. The series
enables a further scent of 'revolution' in regard to its romantic pronunciation, via craft, secondary source material of monuments and
is, as such, an artistic quest into the roaming qualities of those protagonist aspects that brought the work about in the first place. Simultaneously, they
exhibit cloths from Palestine, Syria, Egypt and H&M: all filled with patterns of certain origins. Visually attractive, wrapped on a canvas, they lose
their recognisability and seem to become just fashionable items. Can we recognise political symbolism when faced with it and, even more,
where does this symbolism end? And finally, we see a display table, filled with forms directly referring to the forms mentioned before but: imagined.
On the table, a radio speaker is placed, voicing the roar of the public listing to the famous speech of Martin Luther King Junior. Is this a celebration of
design or a warning for symbolic temptations?

Text by Freek Lomme