Thomas Hirschhorn: Fake it, Fake it - till you Fake it. at Gladstone (2024)

this is my sixth personal Exhibition at Gladstone the fourth in this space so every three or four years since 2003 I'm exhib here so I'm very happy to be here back in the gallery and also of course to to challenge the space which I know so this work here is called fake it fake it till you fake the title I had it since the beginning I like the title because it's to me a relation to the proverb in Silicon Valley fake it till you make it so I was interested in this this idea here to me the strategy in a way the strategy is the analog and the digital the confrontation between the analog and the digital the digital back to the analog or the analog into the digital that's the strategy therefore there are two dimensional things and threedimensional items and also there are in my way digital Parts who break into the analog Parts this could be this could be done under the motto of Muhammad Ali which I think it's fantastic motto he said he said the will must be greater than the skill you know my will is very big but my skills are very poor you can see it here and I assume this by the way I assume this because it's important to me and even now in my in my age to insist on the handun made on the badly made on the precarious mate because I think in the future this is the only way to resist robot ISM robotic control so therefore I assume it here I assert it I assert also the material the materiality cardboard tape uh photocopies styrofoam whatever I know the problematic of this materiality but I use it for political reason since the beginning I started to work I decided this material because they're non intimidating every everybody knows them everybody works with them and they have not the art to touch that's a political decision therefore I want to be truthful to it and I want to go through and the end with this material and I'm happy that I could hear or happy I mean I try to do here a kind of affirmation of this materiality you know when I go into this space this is a white Cube this is a really white Cube the high he the length and everything is a really white so it means as artist you have to you have to to fight the tendency of neutralization of the white Cube and uh it's my work as artist to think about how can I in this analog 300 M Square Place break in or or tangle in with the digital that is my my mission to me it's not filling the space to me it's about density I need density because I the world I feel it dense complex complicated everything is so interconnected and I want in my work not clarify it I will not clean it out I need that in my work it is reflected this compli complication this complexity this inter interconnection therefore it's full and then of course here I work with pictures they are my sources are internet my sources are what I see on the street my sources are also of course what I with my experience of collage want to uh combine combine what is not to combine there is that's the and because that's in effect what is possible with a collage you take existing things and put them together here for example pictures of Gaza ruins in Gaza pictures of ruins in Ukraine and pictures of first and second Shooters in war games like Call of Duty that's the that's the sources and there I've I try to combine how can I as artist today uh give a form which is not a journalistic form and not even uh not a philosophical answer but artistic uh confrontation with the challenges of our world today of the reality of the world so therefore this work here should be a form of it an answer a try an answer how a form can come out I hope people will be touched by what they see and what the energy they feel inside I hope as I said before they feel implicated in the problematic which is laid out here

Channel: Gladstone

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Keywords: Gladstone

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Length: 5min 59sec (359 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 22 2024