I Always Tried to Imagine My Home
View of the installation. © Carlos Bunga.
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt +info
Carlos Bunga describes both himself and his artistic practice as being characterized by a nomadic nature. The instability of the living environment, displacement, and migration all have a defining effect on his work. His architectural installations challenge ideas of security and the certainty of human and material existence, instead suggesting that the only constant is perpetual change. He uses simple materials, such as cardboard panels and tape in his monumental works. The everyday nature of the material, the majority of which is related to storage and transport, forms a bridge to the immediate reality of life.
For the Rotunda at the SCHIRN, the artist devised a new installation using pieces of furniture to form the foundation walls for a cardboard architecture that rises up to the Rotunda’s glass dome. Visitors, as a living part of the present, can move between the past, invariably set in stone, and the idea of a possible future.
Installation view. Photo: Mark Krause.
Exhibition space. Ⓒ Carlos Bunga.
Detail of the site-specific. Bunga uses cardboard, domestic paint and found furniture to build his structures. Photos: Mark Krause.
PROCESS
Bunga building his site-specific. © Carlos Bunga.
PERFORMANCE
Views of the installation after the artist’s performance, in which he brought down his site-specific. Photos: Marc Krause.
Curator: Mathias Ulrich
2022. Frankfurt, Germany.
