Transit
Pere Noguera, Transit
Pere Noguera, Transit
Pere Noguera, Transit
Pere Noguera, Transit
Putting a car out of commission. Fossilizing last century’s main symbol of speed and modernity. A domestic object glorified for its instrumental nature and modern-ay canons of artificial beauty, the vehicle is stripped of its basic features to become a showcase, forced to withdraw into itself and to act as a dusty landscape in which clay dust completely covers the interior and the objects left inside by people.
Transformed into a showcase, it only provides a glimpse of what was there before, where the backs of the old seats are transformed into small hills protruding above a desert-like horizon. A landscape of dust that covers the steering wheel and the seats, transforming a functional object, the car, into a museum display case, shifting the existence of the outdoor landscape toward an interiorised experience. To subvert reality, to transmute an everyday condition into a work of art, this is the purpose.
Pere Noguera
Transit by Pere Noguera was made in Albisola (Italy) in 2006 during the 3rd Biennial of Ceramics in Contemporary Art.
