Natasha Peel
The Vice President, The Associate, The Analyst, 2013
Perspex plastic
The Vice President:
141 x 93 x 79 cm
The Associate:
70 x 58 x 82 cm
The Analyst:
79 x 67 x 31 cm
141 x 93 x 79 cm
The Associate:
70 x 58 x 82 cm
The Analyst:
79 x 67 x 31 cm
The formalist language and architecture of extraterritorial corporate society brings to mind the reductive aesthetics of constructivism and suprematism, which rehearses for us the institutional fate of the avant-garde. Even the London cityscape, adorned with monumental architecture such as ‘The Shard,‘ reveals the realization of such constructivist dreams.
Through this inherited avant-gardist impulse, it is not only the environment that is viewed as malleable material to be molded, shaped or sculpted, human beings themselves are treated as elastic material to be formed as an artificial construct. Titles within the corporate pyramid such as ‘The Associate’ or ‘The Vice President’ distinctly echo El Lissitzky’s The New Man 1923, which now embodies the capitalist ideal of a neoliberal human being.
Exhibitions
Drifting In The Abstract, Vyner Street Gallery, East London, 2013
Join our mailing list
* denotes required fields
We will process the personal data you have supplied in accordance with our privacy policy (available on request). You can unsubscribe or change your preferences at any time by clicking the link in our emails.