When: 4:00 p.m. on Thursday, February 6
Where: Lawrence Hall, room 115, UofO campus, 1190 Franklin Blvd, Eugene, OR 97403
Details: “My work primarily focuses on sculpture and extends into drawing, image, text, and public projects. I aim to defamiliarize the ordinary, encouraging us to rethink how we form associations, assign value, and construct categories of identity, disposability, and loss. This approach mirrors my personal history, as it engages with experiences of disjunction and dislocation and reflects their lasting effects.
I challenge the boundaries of the “Pop Art” object by deconstructing the commodity and its glossy, overconfident surface—its scale, ambition, and failure to fulfill the promises of progress and emancipation. Inspired by the “poor materials” philosophy, I utilize humble materials to bridge the gap between art and everyday life, reconstructing objects to reveal their latent vulnerability and inherent decay. By incorporating architectural principles, I investigate how subtle, ephemeral, and often overlooked structures shape and sustain civilization—from domestic spaces, the feminine, and the infra-ordinary to the anti-heroic. I inquire: what forms provide habitability and order, contributing to civilization’s fabric yet remaining visually or politically unnoticed or silenced? What do we build when we build?” – Ester Partegàs, 2024
Ester Partegàs (Barcelona, 1972) has shown extensively nationally and internationally.
She has been faculty at the Yale School of Art, Skowhegan, Virginia Commonwealth University, SUNY Purchase, and since 2017 teaches at Parsons School of Design.
Cost: Free
Information: https://artdesign.uoregon.edu/events/visiting-artist-lectures/ester-partegas, https://esterpartegas.com/
