Gabriel Orozco

Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco blurs the boundaries between video, drawing, installations, sculpture and photography allowing the audience's imagination to run wild. He gives value to objects which have no status, discarded and undervalued, not desired or part of the big idea of globalised culture. Globalisation is at the center and structure of his work making comment upon the 'fissures and anomalies' capitalism and 'integrated' culture has created. This interaction between audience and artwork is why Orozco is so critically acclaimed, because he managed to communicate effectively through such sometimes bizarre and abstract forms.

Orozco focuses on spatial production, he gives us something to make us feel at time unease with, challenging a normal perspective of a landscape like above. The phenomenological aspects of his work are what fascinate me.  Orozco selects places, objects, landscapes which are recognizable (in globalised culture we recognize them as repetitions and replications but accept them as the 'stadium') but then adds another element, creating a juxtaposition which means we are met with a globalised (naturalized) space alongside something that throws off our natural agreement. If we consider this to be the 'punctum' of the image. This smaller creation, sculpture I feel makes a comment and pierces the viewer that everywhere now seems to made in the image of something else, and most importantly cannot exist without it. Can we have an original experience of anywhere at any one time, or is there somewhere else and someone else experiencing the exact same flaneur.