Taking Over
Location:
MA | Morris Adjmi Architects
60 Broad Street 32nd Floor New York City, NY 10004
Event:
Taking Over features multiple works by conceptual artist Pablo Gómez Uribe that explore intentional deconstruction, centering on El Gordon Demolition, an ongoing project initiated in 2012.
Fundamentally, El Gordon Demolition is a demolition company that mirrors an architecture firm. The legitimate LLC can be understood as both an artwork with discrete elements, as well as a framework for Gómez Uribe’s overall way of working. Installed to look like a functional business, the site-responsive work may make MA’s clients think they have entered the wrong office suite.
This installation is complemented by the documentation of other site-responsive projects, including Para Un Futuro Peor (2015), in which Gómez Uribe covered the façade of the artist/architect-run space CAMPO with trompe l’oeil “tiles” made of cardboard. Commonly known as “butter” board in architecture schools, the cardboard tiles were installed using the same precise engineering and design one would use if working with stone or ceramic.
By “creating” work using deconstruction, in an act of architectural refusal, Gómez Uribe builds upon the legacy of artists like Gordon Matta Clark, whose “anarchitecture” practice embodied “making space without building it.”
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