In the Materialism series, the Dutch duo Studio Drift takes apart technological objects and use cubes and prisms to convey the raw materials they are made of. Although those data sculptures are conceptually physical rearrangements (see our other entries on physical rearrangements), the artists actually weigh the different components and create the prisms from scratch using new material. This new material often only looks like the original material due to practical constraints. Left image: […]
In the Materialism series, the Dutch duo Studio Drift takes apart technological objects and use cubes and prisms to convey the raw materials they are made of. Although those data sculptures are conceptually physical rearrangements (see our other entries on physical rearrangements), the artists actually weigh the different components and create the prisms from scratch using new material. This new material often only looks like the original material due to practical constraints.
Left image: Bicycle (Gazelle), 2019, a “bicycle presented as chunks of rubber, polyurethane, steel, aluminium and lacquer paint, among many others”. Right image: 1975 Russian AK-47 machine gun with bullet from the Vietnam war, 2019.
Sources:
Studio Drift (2022) Materialism — (archived version) Eleanor Gibson (2019) Studio Drift deconstructs everyday objects for Materialism series at Frieze LA — (archived version) Peter-Astrid Kane (2021) What are the raw materials in your iPhone, Starbucks cup and bike? – in pictures — (archived version) Left image: Studio Drift (2019), Bicycle (Gazelle) Right image: Studio Drift (2019), Machine gun
Added by: Pierre Dragicevic, sent by: Estelle Carciofi.
Category:
Passive physical visualization
Tags:
rearrangement