Glue decorates city walls. Thick and bulky, it is initially used to attach a sign or poster.
Over time, the object - and its pragmatic information - fell, making visible the purely functional gesture taking the form of an anonymous drawing, a trace, close to graffiti.
From France to Italy, via Germany, Hungary, Romania as well as Ukraine and Georgia, this series of crosses, points, waves, zigzags and other quirks leaves room for gesture and form which become a universal language: anywhere, walls can tell us sensitive stories.
Amalia Vargas’ artistic practice revolves around objects and artifacts belonging to the everyday collective landscape — whether folklore and tradition or mass culture and consumerism. His sculptures and assemblages divert, combine, distort and vandalize common ready-made objects. The copy and the original, industrial production and craftsmanship, the banal and the eternal meet in a desire to “give meaning” while dismantling certainties. This search for hybrid meanings, between past, present and future populates the artist’s ethnographic practice which gives rise to a singularization of the object, as well as a potential for reinterpretation of uses. -Publisher
