The lack of horizons, of reliable prospects, and the complexity of the capitalist system make artistic work seems to vanish and become ubiquitous in the fabrication of the modern fantasy of art and life. It is in this fading process that Alcaide situates bureau désespoir, a project that explores labour through its spatial manifestation, drawing on the image of the office forged by popular shows such as ‘Ally McBeal’, ‘The office’, ‘Law & order’ as well as a certain subgenre of ‘yuppie’ films.
The sculptures of bureau désespoir respond to the search for a new aesthetic sensibility derived from precarious collages of goods manufactured on the other side of the screen (all pieces include materials purchased on Amazon). That kind of aesthetics, patently superficial, remind us that what matters is not the composition of forms, but the means
of production accumulated in them, from the invisible factories in other continents to the
exclusively informational processes that make up artistic practice.
Complete text by curator José Iglesias available here.
