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SOCCER FIELD METRIC SYSTEM
22March
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SOCCER FIELD METRIC SYSTEM

The Abierto x Obras (Open for Works) space at the Matadero Madrid Center for Contemporary Creation is presenting thru May 22 Soccer Field Metric System by Hisae Ikenaga (Mexico D.F., 1977), in which the artist proposes peculiar measuring means: an animation of handmade cartoons, a couple of plastic option for the grand opening (a soccer field and a filling gauge by filling a hall with smoke, both captured on tape) plus an installation made with pieces of furniture.

 

The intervention reflects on the current benchmarks on the news media, sport fields used to gauge large-scale surfaces, and yet in practice everybody uses their own methods that usually have nothing to do with the established decimal metric system. Instead, they rely on objects (steps and cars) and blatantly skimp on the mandatory measuring system, thus leading to confusions due to lack of knowledge about the objects that have been chosen for this particular purpose

 

IIkenaga has come up –from an ironic discourse that relies on the absurd- with a series of pieces that establish their own relationships. And she does not only focus her work on the size of a soccer field and their goal area, but also on the reaction on both spectators and players from two soccer teams engaged in a matchup within this new space.

 

Soccer Field Metric System started back in 2009 with the photographic registry of Pool-Basketball, a game played inside a swimming pool and in which the referential measure was a real-size basketball court.

 

On her own creative way, she said: “I like my work to be understood without having to explain things away in a complex way. However, I’m aware of the fact that I’m working for a public with basic notions of the contemporary arts.”

 

Hisae Ikenaga (México D.F., 1977) has gotten an artistic formation in several cities: Mexico D.F., Kyoto, Barcelona and Madrid, where she lives now. Some highlights from her individual exhibits are: Concreciones (at 3+1 Arte Contemporánea, Lisbon 2011), Sistema métrico / Malformaciones (Galeria Formato Comodo, Madrid, 2009) or Manufacturing Flaws in Praxis Gallery, New York (2008) and Miami (2009). In addition, she’s been part of several collective exhibits, such as Selva de Cristal, Museo del Chopo (Mexico D.F.), 2ª Trienal poli/gráfica de San Juan (Puerto Rico), Generación 2008 at the La Casa Encendida or Creación Injuve, 2007 at the Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid. Her work has also been exposed in major fairs like ARCOMadrid, MACO in Mexico D.F., Volta Art Fair, Basilea, or Pulse Art Fair, New York, as well as at the Cultural Institutes in Mexico, Madrid and Paris.

 

For more information, visit www.mataderomadrid.com