Materia prima
(Raw material)
TECHNIQUE: Red wallpaper, toilet paper
MEASURES: 300 x 1500 cm.
DATE: 2004 – 2008
Alejandra Rojas’s work generates a dialogue between these two aspects; the piece Raw Material is the result of a systematic work, which addresses experimentation with waste materiality, spatial processes for optical construction and a complement between pictorial expansions from minimalism with a craft act that activates the specific meaning of craftsmanship.
The tension of an intermediate point in this work relocates the object in a constructive and exploratory phase of art, observing her labour under the critic logic characterized by material obsession. Rojas kept it latent for 5 years.