Happy Islands | Curator | José Manuel Noceda Fernánez

The installation entitled Party Monster poses a severe reflection about the spectator/creator, between art disciplines, mixes happening with ready made, texts with drawings to reach an adequate framework that exterminates stereotypes and presents a parallel of reflections between the art devastated by consumption and the ecosystem devastated by industrial growth. And also against the figure of a collapsed planet.

Party Monster Museum is a metaphor of our contemporary society suggested as an ocean of waste products, trash culture and industrial waste; it represents all the litter floating in our seas and cities; the detonator of the work is a text that alludes to the contamination of the seas, specifically a 6.92.000 km2 accumulation of refuse floating in the north Pacific that is exterminating our marine fauna. Party Monster is a sculptural installation that works on the relation between humankind and its objects and environment, based on a process of recollection of different objects such as bottle fragments, plastic containers, industrial residues cast aside by humans, water scrap that mixes with pieces of wood and different kinds of objects of diverse sizes and types of material, a kind of taxonomic inventory of discarded objects, creating a hybrid carpet, knitted in colors and textures representing the contamination of the seas by human beings and their boundless consumption. This work also handles the tension between nature and culture, between art and life itself, through the human being and his objects. Luis Salazar enriches the readings and allegories of the social imagery with a critical glance focused on the stereotypes and clichés that make up the new values of our contemporary society.

Text fragment delivered by the artist.