Borinquen Gallo
Installation view, 'Borinquen Gallo: Plan B (VOLTA), New York', 2019.
Installation view, 'Borinquen Gallo: Plan B (VOLTA), New York', 2019.
Burning in Water is pleased to feature a solo presentation of recent work by gallery artist Borinquen Gallo. The exhibition will feature two large-scale wall works and a series of sculptures fashioned from intricately reconstituted street materials such as yellow and red “caution” tape, construction tarps, garbage bags, discarded hub-caps and debris netting.
By deliberately restricting herself to the use of disposable materials intrinsic to urban settings, Gallo elaborates complex tensions between the ephemeral and the enduring; the disposable and the sacred; creation and decay. Although the ubiquity of plastic and industrial materials in Gallo’s work inevitably raises issues related to consumerism and environmentalism, she aims for a radical shift in perspective rather than didacticism or oversimplification. Across a broad range of considerations — material, formal, psychologically intimate and social —Gallo aims “to modulate between the familiar and the surprising” so as to fundamentally disrupt viewers’ assumptions regarding what is valuable.