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Danni O鈥橞rien: Wa(r)ning Light
Ortega y Gasset Projects proudly presents, Wa(r)ning Light, a solo show of works by Danni O鈥橞rien in the Skirt, opening on Saturday, January 13, 2024, co-curated by OyG Co-Directors Zahar Vaks, and Lauren Whearty.
O鈥橞rien鈥檚 relief sculptures irreverently and humorously combine diagrams with a variety of found objects to create an intersection of machines, flesh, usefulness, and speculation. Early 20th century contraceptive device patents and schematics from a book titled 鈥淐ontraception Naturally: A Comprehensive Self-Help Guide to Responsible Contraception From Your Kitchen鈥� are abstracted鈥� becoming glyphs on tablets made uncanny through their use of household objects like a dip鈥檔鈥檚nack chip bowl, vintage humidifier, clamshell jewelry boxes, alabaster stone eggs, a star shaped jar opener, and light.
O鈥橞rien collects these historically gendered, mostly plastic, and visibly used items once they鈥檝e been discarded. Their domiciliary nature and anthropomorphized and organic forms emulate crevices, cycles, and habitats, all of which point to the body and its systems. Illustrations of a diaphragm insertion or homemade barriers are drawn with pipe cleaners embedded in paper pulp slabs, evoking the earliest forms of language like carved stone petroglyphs, where bulbous forms emerge from organic rock formations. Others are articulations of early, intimate contraceptive aids and tools themselves, forming larger than life machine-like contraptions. In each speculative sculpture, O鈥橞rien uses this scale shift, highlighting the urgency and importance of their content.
Ortega y Gasset Projects proudly presents, Wa(r)ning Light, a solo show of works by Danni O鈥橞rien in the Skirt, opening on Saturday, January 13, 2024, co-curated by OyG Co-Directors Zahar Vaks, and Lauren Whearty.
O鈥橞rien鈥檚 relief sculptures irreverently and humorously combine diagrams with a variety of found objects to create an intersection of machines, flesh, usefulness, and speculation. Early 20th century contraceptive device patents and schematics from a book titled 鈥淐ontraception Naturally: A Comprehensive Self-Help Guide to Responsible Contraception From Your Kitchen鈥� are abstracted鈥� becoming glyphs on tablets made uncanny through their use of household objects like a dip鈥檔鈥檚nack chip bowl, vintage humidifier, clamshell jewelry boxes, alabaster stone eggs, a star shaped jar opener, and light.
O鈥橞rien collects these historically gendered, mostly plastic, and visibly used items once they鈥檝e been discarded. Their domiciliary nature and anthropomorphized and organic forms emulate crevices, cycles, and habitats, all of which point to the body and its systems. Illustrations of a diaphragm insertion or homemade barriers are drawn with pipe cleaners embedded in paper pulp slabs, evoking the earliest forms of language like carved stone petroglyphs, where bulbous forms emerge from organic rock formations. Others are articulations of early, intimate contraceptive aids and tools themselves, forming larger than life machine-like contraptions. In each speculative sculpture, O鈥橞rien uses this scale shift, highlighting the urgency and importance of their content.
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