Corrugated cardboard is both the point of departure and the ending of an the ending of Inbox. Employed daily to deliver goods around the world in record time, the ubiquitous cardboard box - symbol of globalization and online shopping - is used and discarded without anyone paying attention. After selecting a specific found box as a subject, I then replicate every element of that box’s biography: cuts, marks, folds, footprints, leftover stickers and labels, staples, fragments of tape, ripped corners and sides in oil paint on acid-free cardboard. The resulting portraits are exact replicas of the found boxes.

SC 90/9

15 x 12 inch

Oil on cardboard

2011

Brown Tape

Oil on cardboard

2011

Installation view, Inbox, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, 2011




White Box (detail)

49 x 109 inch

Oil on cardboard

2011

Installation view, Inbox, Josée Bienvenu, 2011

White Box (detail)

49 x 109 inch

Oil on cardboard

2011

Installation view, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, 2011

Installation view, Fundació Arranz-Bravo, 2017

Untitled detail

13 x 13 inch

Oil on cardboard

2011

-1

15 x 17 inch

Oil on cardboard

2011

Installation view, Inbox, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, 2011