Adela Goldbard: 5000
Adela Goldbard: 5000
Solo Exhibition
Solo Exhibition
Curated by Melinda Guillen
Curated by Melinda Guillen
May 19–May 26, 2015
May 19–May 26, 2015
Visual Arts @ SME 406
Visual Arts @ SME 406
5000 is a research-based installation by San Diego and Mexico City-based artist and MFA student Adela Goldbard. 5000 presents process documentation from the construction process of Goldbard’s sculptural work, Architectural Prototype for an Upcoming Disaster (2015) commissioned by Melinda Guillen for the exhibition, No Longer Extant: Cayetano Ferrer and Adela Goldbard held in the Visual Arts Gallery @ SME 142. The sculpture was made in Cerro Azul, Baja California and is a scaled model of a two-story “average” house layout typically sited in outlying, low socioeconomic areas in Mexico. The design started as a 36 sq. meter, single-floor house and was modified during the construction process, in collaboration with architect Rubén León Pacheco, from metric to imperial system (1m : 1ft) and is made of approximately 5000 artisanal bricks. This work marks the beginning of the artist’s research process on housing, labor, border negotiation and translation through artisanal brickmaking.
5000 is a research-based installation by San Diego and Mexico City-based artist and MFA student Adela Goldbard. 5000 presents process documentation from the construction process of Goldbard’s sculptural work, Architectural Prototype for an Upcoming Disaster (2015) commissioned by Melinda Guillen for the exhibition, No Longer Extant: Cayetano Ferrer and Adela Goldbard held in the Visual Arts Gallery @ SME 142. The sculpture was made in Cerro Azul, Baja California and is a scaled model of a two-story “average” house layout typically sited in outlying, low socioeconomic areas in Mexico. The design started as a 36 sq. meter, single-floor house and was modified during the construction process, in collaboration with architect Rubén León Pacheco, from metric to imperial system (1m : 1ft) and is made of approximately 5000 artisanal bricks. This work marks the beginning of the artist’s research process on housing, labor, border negotiation and translation through artisanal brickmaking.
