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A PALAZZO
PALAZZO MONTI
BRESCIA, ITALY
2019
Palazzo Monti presented “Oren Pinhassi a Palazzo”, a solo show of the NY-based artist. The show included a selection of sculptures and installations created while in residency.
"[…] My work deals with archetypes of structures and objects that act as networks that encase the living and the dead human body, that protect it or destroy it, that interact materially with it. Archetypes like: a bunker, a tunnel, a grave, a house, a mausoleum, a bath-house, a bath-tub etc; these are metaphysical cases of interaction between the human and the non-human. Materials are interacting with each other, desires and instincts as well, wet elements interacting with dry ones, organic body with synthetic body. I see these interactions as potentials for positive, constructive forces that can set new tools, production rules and new economies for the artist, and for thinking about our place within the universal continuum. […] “
Oren Pinhassi