Johanna Unzueta’s works address notions of labor, productivity, and progress. Made using natural materials such as felt and wood, manipulated and combined with recycled objects from old factories, her labor-intensive, handmade constructions emulate industrial architecture, tools, and machinery. Thinking of the history of tool making, and of tools as extensions of the body, Unzueta rereads the technological advances of the Industrial Revolution through the body. In this way she brings our attention to common objects that serve very specific, practical purposes, but that we often take for granted and have effectively become invisible to us.
Often described by the artist as “humble objects,” the hinges and the chain in the exhibition From My Head to My Toes, to My Teeth to My Nose are indeed common—they rarely seek any type of protagonism. They are made of 100 percent natural felt and arranged in site-responsive configurations that are projections of the body....A hinge “hugs” a corner of a wall; a chain made using Unzueta’s whole body as a pattern becomes a stand-in for the artist herself.
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