>1998
> untitled (desktop)

Untitled
(desktop), 1998, 65x50x50cm
aquarium, air pump, water, laptop computer, video camera, cell phone,
remote control.
>O Império Contra Ataca, Galeria ZDB, Lisbon and La Capela, Barcelona
Desktop was made for the O Império comtra ataca exhibition, Galeria ZDB,
Lisbon
(curated by Pedro Cabral Santo and Carlos Roque).
The exhibition was a reaction / comment on the Expo'98 World Fair, opening
in Lisbon the next month, under the theme The Oceans: A Patrimony for
the Future. The biggest Oceanarium in Europe was being built. At the
same, time a big exhibition was taking place in one of our 4 main art
institutions: "The Eighties", curated by Maria de Corral, at Culturgest,
where one could see the famous vacuum cleaners inside plexyglas boxes
by Jeff Koons.
Desktop is an aquarium with electronic equipment from the early 90's.
Inside the aquarium are:
An Hewlett Packard portable computer
A Panasonic video camera
A Nokia mobile phone
A remote control
and a 3.1/2 floppy disk.
This work shows concerns on the technology race and what to do with outdated
equipment.
As if we should put the junk and polution inside a big oceanarium, leting
the fish loose and healthy in the ocean, and
not the inverse.


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