WORK OF THE WEEK II

Yornel Martínez (B. 1981)

The Star, 2014

The work consists of an opulent chandelier of magnificent living room installed from the ceiling of the gallery. The device is completely turned off, but in turn, it remains illuminated indirectly by the lights of the space.

The installation is oriented to distort the astronomical event of supernovae, i.e., the instant in which more a star shines is followed by its anonymous extinction.

This idea produces, with the title The Star, a certain metaphoric game, where the artificiality of the not working chandelier, illuminated by an external element such as the luminaires of the gallery, can allude to the idea of the spectacularly ridiculous, to the consumerism tendency for the discontinued objects, or the enthusiasm for the star system phenomenon and its ephemera nature.