- Unpacking, wheels
- Re-encasing and amending a number of commodities, Perez Evans presents us with a series of semi-opened parcels in transit, parked temporarily in the exhibition space. Through various optical illusions, created by propping mirrors opened with live root vegetables, he creates an illusion of goods suspended in mid air, which also produce the image of wheels which are floating. The artist looks at how historical processes of illusion continue being present in consumer culture, where infinitely recurring sequences of class struggle, aspiration and power continue hallucinatorally haunting the present. Packing material, transportation trolleys and other shipping debris are left visible encasing the work, implying and giving visibility to many of the bodies of labour present in chains of production, bodies usually cleverly hidden with the purpose of further auratic hallucination in consumer culture and the art world.
- Yams, mirrors, cardboard, metal trolleys, cellophane plastic, 2019-2020.
- Unpacking, wheels
- Re-encasing and amending a number of commodities, Perez Evans presents us with a series of semi-opened parcels in transit, parked temporarily in the exhibition space. Through various optical illusions, created by propping mirrors opened with live root vegetables, he creates an illusion of goods suspended in mid air, which also produce the image of wheels which are floating. The artist looks at how historical processes of illusion continue being present in consumer culture, where infinitely recurring sequences of class struggle, aspiration and power continue hallucinatorally haunting the present. Packing material, transportation trolleys and other shipping debris are left visible encasing the work, implying and giving visibility to many of the bodies of labour present in chains of production, bodies usually cleverly hidden with the purpose of further auratic hallucination in consumer culture and the art world.
- Yams, mirrors, cardboard, metal trolleys, cellophane plastic, 2019-2020.
