Obscur Unions
Skeleton (Art Installation)
Title | Obscur Unions
Concept | Jonas Staal & Laure Prouvost
Commissioned by | Studio Jonas Staal
Type | Skeleton (Art Installation)
Date | 25 February - 3 June 2021
Location | Nam June Paik Art Center Yongin
Architecture | Paul Kuipers
Production Coordinator | Nadine Gouders
Photography | Kang Shindae
Images process | Paul Kuipers
Text | Jonas Staal
Obscur Unions
“These spaces of assembly, of which the artists describe themselves as ‘co-administrators,’ make reference to constructivist theory, specifically the notion of the “object-as-comrade” developed by artists such as Alexander Rodchenko and Varvara Stepanova. In Prouvost and Staal’s work, this political recognition of objects is expanded to non-human, other-than-human and more-than-human comradeship.
Neither of the presences in these spaces of assembly – branch, plant, tongue or arm – are themselves obscure, as Prouvost and Staal argue that the obscure should be considered relational. It is through unscripted, rogue relations that emerge in assembly between branch and toxin, between tongue and sign, that normative reality is torn and the obscure manifests as a political, trans-formative force.”
with the Red Wedge (1919)
El Lissitsky