A3 poster/flyer for Partial Vacuum by Lucía Montero
London-based visual artist Lucía Montero presented her latest work, Partial Vacuum, at Les Brigittines in Brussels. It was part of WORKING TITLE FESTIVAL, supported by workspacebrussels, and ranging over 3 sites in the Belgian capital: Kanal - Centre Pompidou, Les Brigittines - Playhouse for Movement and the workspacebrussels house. As part of the show, we developed a foldable A3 poster/flyer to present the piece. It can be opened up and become a poster which a visitor could hang back at home.
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About Partial Vacuum at Les Brigittines - Playhouse for Movement
About WORKING TITLE FESTIVAL by workspacebrussels
About the work
Partial vacuum is an installation that places seven found photographs next to seven radiometers or light mills. As a viewer you see an image, but no vanishing point or centre of attention. It is an artefact in constant movement, as are our memories: fleeting, decelerating, gone.
Glass, acrylic resin and mica stone are the primary materials of the installation. Image and object together form a dedicated milieu in which the viewer is invited to imagine and wander.
Created in 1875 by physicist William Crookes with the help of master glass-blower Charles Gimmingham, the radiometers were part of a set of experiments studying attraction or repulsion resulting from radiation. At that point, they were a powerful topic of discussion in science and to this day they retain their appeal due to their beauty and formal delicacy.
These qualities and their pairing with found photographs formed the inception of Partial vacuum, a work that explores how we cope with remembrance.
About the artist
Lucia Montero is a visual artist based in London working primarily with moving image, sound and photography. After graduating in Visual Arts and Multimedia in 2013, she started working with Nomad projects and collaborated with artists such as Marcus Coates, Nathaniel Mellors and Lundhal & Seitl, acquiring experience with site-specific installations and co-creative projects.
She has also been developing a more intimate practice focusing on appropriation techniques, associative aesthetics and remembrance.
The recto of the poster/flyer, meant to be folded in 4, with the bottom right becoming the first page,the top right the second, the top left the third and the bottom left the last.
The verso of the poster/flyer, meant to surprise with a touch of colour, as well as a token of the exhibition and the work.