Exhaust
Marcela Armas
In the late 2000s, several of Armas’s pieces incorporated the presence of fossil fuels as forces acting on the urban landscape. In Exhaust, a plastic wrapper inflates with gas produced by the combustion of six cars, its structure taking the form of a vehicular bridge.
Armas is part of a generation of artists who explore technology as a material basis for their work, seeking to understand both its collaborative possibilities and the danger it poses to human beings. In this series, she conjures the implications of our habits and logics of consumption amid the everyday violence enacted on the environment we inhabit.
MARCELA ARMAS (1976)
Exhaust, 2009
Video recording and photographic print
5’ 50”
Editio. 1/3
Acquisition through the SHCP Pago en Especie program, 2015
