WOUNDS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 14, 1994
Contact: Martha Wilson or Nathan Blake
FRANKLIN FURNACE PRESENTS "WOUNDS": AN INSTALLATION
BY DOLORES ZORREGUIETA
Opening November 11, from 6-8 p.m. and continuing through December 10
Gallery hours: 12-6, Tuesday to Saturday
Located at 112 Franklin Street, New York, N.Y. 10013
“Wounds,” an installation created by Dolores Zorreguieta, evokes sensations of the physical body as it confronts mortality. This series of band-aid covered objects, which have been doused and splashed with liquids, evoke flesh and blood, and through their presence, focus on pain. Not only does the artist allude to literal wounds caused by disease, war, and other victims of violence, but to metaphorical wounds inflicted by dogmatic values, politics and institutions. The irony of the band-aid is made harshly clear due to the obsessive repetition and placement which, in actuality, covers and hides the wounds without healing them. This brutal confrontation of the weakness of the band-aid becomes an ominous reminder of the vulnerability of humankind. In this installation, a significant number of “wounded” objects are suspended from the ceiling like coma patients or carcasses, and their cocoon-like silence creates an unsettling effect.
Dolores Zorreguieta was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1965. There she studied at the National School of Arts and after graduation, had several solo and group shows in her country. Since moving to New York in 1992, she has experienced critical changes in her work. The most significant was making the transition from painting to sculpture and installation. Her work also became more political and sometimes brutal. Her practice is conducted by an obsessiveness that she brings to the limits, putting aside all the elements that do not match with that obsession.
Recently Ms. Zorreguieta has participated in the seminar and show “Artists in the Marketplace” organized by the Bronx Museum of the Arts. Zorreguieta was one of the eight artists selected from over 150 proposals reviewed by this year’s installation panel consisting of: Willie Cole, Sowon Kwon, Shirin Neshat and Theodora Skipitares.
Franklin Furnace has received support for launching the careers of emerging artists from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency; the New York State Council on the Arts; Jerome Foundation; Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation; The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation; the Foundation for Contemporary Perfomance Arts, Inc. ; The Peter Norton Family Foundation; and the friends and members of Franklin Furnace.
(The image in the background of this section was featured in the announcement postcard of the exhibition. The photograph was taken by Elvira Morán in the rooftop of an East Village building in New York City)
