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Inflation 3

Diego Bianchi

Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Romainville

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Title
Inflation 3
Gallery
Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Romainville
Year
2021
Duration
12 min 52 s
Format & Technical

HD, Single-Channel Video, Colour, Sound

Bianchi’s works and immersive installation create a locus where the organic is estranged and the industrial is anthropomorphic. The Argentine artist is interested in how we are connected to objects and how they affect our everyday life. His works reshape our perceptions to create a spatial configuration indistinct of bodies and things. For Inflation, Bianchi processes discarded objects, mostly car parts, and organic matter such as bioplastics, trying to force integration between conflicting worlds. The structures are complemented by the familiar, though often obscured sounds of the by-products of living bodily systems in their normal day-to-day functions, such as snoring, passing wind, exhalations and sighs. These sounds become the soundtrack to a series of videos where the adventures of peculiar characters with exceeded bodies were recorded. Creating environments that maintain an abstract quality mixed with precarity and humor, Bianchi’s fictional machinery of work replicates the process of the digestive system.

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Diego Bianchi

Artist

1969, Buenos Aires

Diego  Bianchi

During the last decade, the work of Diego Bianchi emerged as a magnifying and distorting lens of urban life that focused on the formal and mostly chaotic traces of consumerism, specifically the remnants of the neoliberal economic damage of the last post crisis period in Argentina. Bianchi’s practice proposes an apotheosis of everyday situations, such as the destructive force of nature and time and the assortment of colors, textures, and volumes of commodities. His works vary from small interventions and documentation of a city’s constellations of everyday leftovers to autonomous sculptures or human-scale monuments of decay turning into expanded physical and mental landscapes. The body, which has always been part of Bianchi’s installations, became a more concrete presence recently, first as limbs that animate the objects and afterwards as complete fictional or nonfiction scenes inside a volcanic interpretation of reality.