Gestures of Resistance
April 20 – April 30 2017
Romantso Cultural Centre, Athens, Greece
Curated by Jean Wainwright
Gestures of Resistance
Carbon-12
Carbon-12 was first realised as part of a collaborative exhibition Drive Thru that took place within the Cavendish Square Car Park in West London during Frieze Week in 2016. The installation consisted of a set of twelve manufactured car number plates detailing the UN’s twelve most threatened global tree species, mounted on the concrete walls like signs designating personalised parking spaces. The fonts and design templates used for these show plates are uniquely specific to this display element of the automobile industry. In terms of Resistance, here we have two extremes pitted against each other – species bordering on extinction through man made commercial and environmental interactions alongside a potent visual symbol of one of the worlds indices of freedom and emancipation and yet the most pervasive and environmentally damaging of instruments – the automobile.
Edward Chell. 2017.