LIConcrete

2016-17 // LONG ISLAND CITY [NYC, USA]

During the spring of 2016, I began working on an installation based on various construction sites in Long Island City within walking distance from my home. I sought out construction sites that were pouring concrete and asked if I could gather a bucket of wet concrete to pour into make-shift forms at the edge of the construction site. The form-works were made out of materials in the immediate surroundings: a plastic bag, a stone, the wooden barrier, the curb, a light post. The result was a series of small-scale concrete objects that were imprints of the site during a particular moment and place in Long Island City’s development.

Each site that I cast concrete forms from has been photographed and mapped out. Photographs that correspond with the concrete casts are placed in relation to the sculptures.

The sculptures act as an observation and comment on the development of contemporary LIC, while as an installation they present unique concrete figures, each with its own gesture and posture that begin to build relationships amongst one another.

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The sculptures were part of a group show in Jamaica Queens, NYC in the fall of 2016.
This was a collaboration with Alva Mooses.