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Statement | Stray Dog - Roberto Gómez - artmedia GALLERY - Miami FL - 305
#1, Species of Objects, New Delhi, 2012

The urban objects reflect social behaviors. Objects structure daily life and construct visual languages. My work utilizes characteristics of urban life to create and reaffirm levels of interpretation of a globalized object.

The relationship between the diverse urban aesthetics and their geographical situations is part of my research as a visual artist. I explore anthropological relationships of different societies with their popular forms of expression in urban settings, and how this establishes a global parallel. My questions are placed on how the interaction between urban objects reaffirms and contradicts their meaning and reality, and consequently on how the trivial and ordinary can generate a complex and sophisticated visual dialogue. The object found in the pedestrian setting may be reinterpreted within an analogical association disposed on a larger globalized context.

“The banal, the obvious, the common, the ordinary, the infra-ordinary, the background noise, the habitual […] How are we to speak of these common things, how to track them down, how to flush them out, wrest them from the dross in which they are mired, how to give them meaning, a tongue, to let them, finally, speak of what it is, who we are.”

From Georges Perec’s, Species of Objects.