Saturation / The Plague / Displacement of Painting: Public Spaces. Richard Prince Infested. EGGS – MAC, 2009.
The Plague addresses contemporary contamination through the metaphor of a disease affecting planet Earth. Inspired by James Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis, which understands the planet as a living and self-regulating organism, the series suggests that industrial and commercial intervention has damaged the balance of Gaia and, with it, our own living environment.
This line of work records defining features of the present: plastic waste, toxic emissions, visual noise, advertising overflow, and the saturation of landscapes and bodies. Painting is the starting point, but its conceptual and physical limits expand into installation, intervention, objects, domestic rooms, public spaces, and rural environments.
flowchart LR
Z((Representation of the World)) --> Y((The Tangible))
Y --> A((Saturation))
A --> B((The Plague))
A --> X([The Invisible])
B --> C([Infected Paintings])
C --> D([Traditional Supports])
C --> E([Soft Supports])
B --> F([Displacement of Painting])
F --> F1([Domestic Space])
F --> F2([Public Space])
F --> F3([Rural / Natural Space])
click Z "/EN/world-representation.html" "View Representation of the World"
click Y "/EN/tangible.html" "View The Tangible"
click A "/EN/saturation.html" "View Saturation"
click B "/EN/the-plague.html" "View The Plague"
click X "/EN/the-invisible.html" "View The Invisible"
click C "/EN/infected-paintings.html" "View Infected Paintings"
click D "/EN/infected-paintings.html#traditional-supports" "Go to Traditional Supports"
click E "/EN/infected-paintings.html#soft-supports" "Go to Soft Supports"
click F "/EN/displacement-of-painting" "Go to Displacement of Painting"
click F1 "/EN/domestic-space.html" "Go to Domestic Space"
click F2 "/EN/public-space.html" "Go to Public Space"
click F3 "/EN/rural-natural-space.html" "Go to Rural / Natural Space"
The proposal establishes radical contrasts: nature versus contamination, Gaia versus degradation, art versus commodification, body versus virus. Non-conventional materials, especially printed waste and advertising residues, reveal how consumption operates as an agent that affects both environmental and cultural integrity.
