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Dana Shea
Vaporetto Project at the Venice Biennale:
ARTIST STATEMENT:
Over the last three years, in my artwork, I have explored our many control systems from my investigations into the inner-workings of the human body as well as other forms of environmental control that we use in their daily lives like appliances (heating systems). I have explored different control system in the body and in the environment through different art materials.
I use the separation we try to maintain when walking down a busy street as an illustration of my installation artworks, giving myself to spontaneous impulses of design and abstraction. In my artwork, I reference humanity, massed together, yet moving fluidly (with many variations) in opposite directions.
My recent creation of this process took place at the WATERWAYS PROJECT in conjunction with the Venice Biennale on a vaporetto water bus. I created an abstract mural - depicting the canals of Venice, Italy. With the intention of avoiding the structure of the canals rather creating a-back and forth-underlying flow of saturated blue paint; mixing the dichotomy of a water base paint “mural” on a boat. I play with our association and utilization of water, in this painting I also toy with the brains labyrinth type of construction in an abstract mural. For the WATERWAYS PROJECT I created several abstracted images made out of cut out colored construction paper with the intention of loosely depicting the many ports or docks for waterbuses.
The five two-sided digital photograghs I created for the WATERWAYS PROJECT reference issues of our environmental control systems and to what extent in our contemporary society do we control water to heat or freeze or in other parts the world to keep our houses warm or cool by water. In addition, the images presented in the WATERWAYS PROJECT, I also show our society’s efforts to re-use and treat contaminated water. Also our society’s efforts to control and own water masses.Please contact webmaster/webdesigner at 646/245-9839 or photo_webmaster@yahoo.com.