Press acclaim for Greta Alfaro’s ‘A Very Crafty and Tricky Contrivance’
Friday, 19 October 2012
Greta Alfaro’s first UK solo exhibition, which can be seen at the Fish & Coal Building in King’s Cross until 24 October, has received international press attention. Presented by the Genesis Foundation, the site-specific exhibition invites viewers to question the ideals and rules of society.
The Wall Street Journal’s Emma Crichton-Miller commented:
“Ms. Alfaro’s work animates the space for our contemplation. Sitting there, you become aware of how blithely human beings disregard the personalities of the places they inhabit, assuming they exist only for their purposes. We are blind to the hundred other creatures who slip in and out, opportunist tenants who may ultimately inherit the place. Meanwhile, the space itself, with its bricks and mortar, beams and open doorways, persists patiently, only ever truly revealed in these in-between moments, when an artist can expose its poetry, before ordinary human use once more renders it banal.”
A Very Crafty and Tricky Contrivance features video footage filmed using a roaming camera attached to a rat, and scenes of Edwardian office bureaucracy that convey a feeling of entrapment and alienation. Spanish publication ABC Culture commented that the exhibition “strikes the viewer as a visual thriller, like the Blair Witch Project.”
Links to full articles and other press can be found below:
Read more about the exhibition here.