ExhibitionOctober 2, 2023
Patrick Hamilton: The Forgotten. Casal Solleric
In Los Olvidados, Patrick Hamilton presents five sculptural proposals made with intervened working tools. Saws, trowels, bricks, spatulas, and baskets are elements that belong to the "precarious" world of the laborer, the construction worker, the bricklayer, and the carpenter. The artist intervenes these objects with the colors of the "collectivist" movements that marked union politics during the twentieth century. Curated by Cooperativa Performa and Fernando Gómez de la Cuesta.
For the Casal Solleric exhibition, Hamilton produced in-situ works in which simple plastic buckets project various photographs of the Mediterranean Sea dyed red. He delves into the immigration problem that the Mediterranean countries face as ports of entry to Europe.
Patrick Hamilton's work questions the concepts of work, economy, memory, and history in the context of the last decades in Chile, particularly the period known as post-dictatorship. In this sense, his work has involved a constant aesthetic reflection on the consequences of the "neoliberal revolution" implemented in Chile by Pinochet and the group of economists known as the Chicago Boys during the seventies and eighties.
Patrick Hamilton's conceptual work can be understood as a portrait of the economic and cultural processes Chile and many other countries have dealt with under neoliberalist politics in recent decades. His work is characterized by a formal rigor that goes hand in hand with historiographic research processes and archival review of specific cases. His practice uses a large number of visual resources and formats ranging from collage, archive, and photography through sculpture, installation, and architectural intervention.
For the Casal Solleric exhibition, Hamilton produced in-situ works in which simple plastic buckets project various photographs of the Mediterranean Sea dyed red. He delves into the immigration problem that the Mediterranean countries face as ports of entry to Europe.
Patrick Hamilton's work questions the concepts of work, economy, memory, and history in the context of the last decades in Chile, particularly the period known as post-dictatorship. In this sense, his work has involved a constant aesthetic reflection on the consequences of the "neoliberal revolution" implemented in Chile by Pinochet and the group of economists known as the Chicago Boys during the seventies and eighties.
Patrick Hamilton's conceptual work can be understood as a portrait of the economic and cultural processes Chile and many other countries have dealt with under neoliberalist politics in recent decades. His work is characterized by a formal rigor that goes hand in hand with historiographic research processes and archival review of specific cases. His practice uses a large number of visual resources and formats ranging from collage, archive, and photography through sculpture, installation, and architectural intervention.
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