Art
2018
Jesus Canuto Iglesias
Skipping Steps
Skipping Steps investigates the concept of industrialization in art as an installation and musical instrument. By utilizing the unwanted effects of industrial techniques, Jesús Canuto Iglesias poses the following question with Skipping Steps: Can a mechanical component—as a symbol of progress—be artistically reused by focusing on its undesirable qualities? With this installation, he aims to achieve a higher level of industrialization, where the machine and its phenomena with resulting sound characteristics are not used to produce goods, but to create artistic material. Placing the installation in the context of Into the Great Wide Open creates a dislocating contrast with our society and presents the installation as a forgotten artifact. The sound sculptures seem to be remnants of a society that has taken over nature and are waiting to be reactivated.
About Jesús Canuto Iglesias
Jesús Canuto Iglesias (Madrid, 1992) is a multidisciplinary artist currently living in The Hague. His work is an experiment of various methods and technologies to bring his concepts into functionality. His research focuses on the peculiarities of our current time, with an emphasis on the paradoxes that emerge or remain in such behavior. His installations focus on sound, image, and sculptural experiments with various phenomena related to his research.
Jesús Canuto Iglesias - https://www.jesuscanuto.com/
In collaboration with ArtScience / Royal Academy of Art
