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1. Untitled(Plastic Bags) 2. Demo(n)cracy
His installation of 2008 entitled ‘Kasbah’ is also related to the life of the subaltern. It refers to the modus vivend of the subaltern living at the favelas in such countries of Congo, Algeria and Venezuela. A vernacular architecture is reminded by the objects used in this work including a thrown-out galvanized roof, a satelliteantenna, cement blocks, and junk tires. Nevertheless, a very particular experience is provided to the viewers walking on the galvanized roof installed on a considerably spacious part of the gallery’s floor. It is not a everyday affair to look downward the rugged sheet zincs, and when one feels like actually walking on the roofs of others, his or her psychological experience is as much special. The lives of these favelados far from the blesses of economic globalization may look abject, but what the aesthetics of the poor is can be inferred though indistinctly from the adjacency of their lives pestering one another within the cramped and tight-squeeze of their residences. Untitled (Plastic Bags) displayed in the same exhibition space as Kasbah is also reflective of such aesthetics of the poor. These plastic bags suggesting Involuntary Sculpture by Surrealist Brassai are too feeble to support themselves, but on the other hand they are the very fugacious beings whose hollowness fills the space.
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