{"id":42469,"date":"2017-09-10T09:01:12","date_gmt":"2017-09-10T07:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wevux.com\/?p=42469"},"modified":"2017-09-06T12:25:17","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T10:25:17","slug":"white-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wevux.com\/white-lies0042469\/","title":{"rendered":"WHITE LIES"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before becoming an artist, Lucas Sim\u00f5es<\/span><\/a> worked as an architect. He has long been interested in the promises, failures, and whiteness of modern architecture.<\/p>\n

“The history of the modern architecture is written by white men, all its goals and the amount of failures of this political and social instrument, were historically ruled by them.”<\/p>\n

\u201cWhite Lies\u201d is the tile for this new series of six column-like sculptures made from concrete and paper piles. The six pieces are arranged in a grid, as if they were pylons for an imaginary building in the process of being built or demolished. Paper and concrete seem to cascade toward the ground or climb skyward in a regular pattern, frozen a moment before each pillar topples. The severe concrete elements are inspired by the post-modern movement, Brutalism, architecture and contrast sharply with the thin paper that supports it.<\/p>\n

Sim\u00f5es<\/span><\/a>\u2019s work is about buildings\u2014their stability and failure, the promises their architects make and the consequences of their existence. The idiom in the title of the show, White Lies, implies a certain harmlessness. But thinking about the phrase in terms of race, instead, encourages a reconsideration of modern architecture, the people at its helm, and its effects on the world.<\/p>\n

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