Diego Bianchi, Softrealism, 2019. Installation view at Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Paris. Photo: François Doury
Diego Bianchi, El presente está encantador (the enchanting now), 2017. Photo: Bruno Dubner
Diego Bianchi, WasteAfterWaste, 2015
Diego Bianchi, Softrealism, 2019. Installation view at Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Paris. Photo: François Doury
Diego Bianchi (b. 1969, Buenos Aires, Argentina) lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Bianchi envisions artistic practice as a space for trial and error – rehearsing the situations he creates by embracing a level of uncertainty. Through installation, sculpture and performance, Bianchi explores the processes of obsolescence and decay, as well as the absurd connections that exist between things in the world. He punctuates the worth of ‘worthless’ entities through utilising them in his immersive spatial environments. Recent exhibitions include Bienalsur, Argentina (2019); Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art, Argentina (2017); Perez Art Museum, USA (2015); and The Latin American Art Museum of Buenos Aires, Argentina (2015).
Project Description
Diego Bianchi presents a site-specific installation at The Lewis’s Building. Bianchi is interested in how we are connected to objects and how they affect our everyday life – his works reconfigure our movements to create a spatial configuration of bodies and things. For his installation, Bianchi will process discarded and donated objects, 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 function, such as snoring, passing wind, exhalations and sighs. Creating environments that maintain an abstract quality mixed with precarity and humour, Bianchi’s fictional machinery of work replicates the process of the digestive system.
Liverpool Biennial
55 New Bird Street
Liverpool L1 0BW
Liverpool Biennial is funded by
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James Moores