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images from Floating Dragon coming
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The exhibition Floating Dragon showcases a series
of polymer resin sculptures by the artist. Small and staggeringly
complex, the underlying form for each monochromatic sculpture originates
in a Google Maps search.
Rather than an inquiry into the map of a known place or address,
Medine’s search requests ask far more from Google’s servers than they
are equipped to give. By asking for the location of "the place that is
always outside", "the place where people put their hands in the air like
they just don't care", "the place that is inescapable" Medine receives
results which provide puzzling and mysterious answers to his questions.
The maps provided by Google are then used as templates to design
architectural elevations, which are then rendered in three dimensional
polymer resin on a rapid prototyper. Distortions and repetitions in the
design distort the original image into a miniature ziggurat that you
could
hold in your hand; each piece echoes it’s origin as simple question
about place by becoming an absurd and theoretical place. Landmarks are
stripped of meaning, roads become lines, the empty gaps between the
roads transform from used space to potential space. The viewer is forced
into questioning the relationship between the planned ordering of human
spaces and the unanswerable chaos that is the basis of these works.
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