Alejandro Valencia
Flaneur's Tunic (The Great Noise) 2024
Repurposed caution tape, danger tape, electric tape, painters tape, packing tape and inkjet print.
29 in x 22 in
$450.00
Flaneur's Tunic (Fosa) 2024
Repurposed caution tape, electric tape, painters tape, and packing tape
28 in x 22 in
$450.00
Flaneur's Tunics is a series of works that utilize discarded and found materials from the city, more particularly within the area of Morning Side and Harlem. The materials are collected through a series of "derives" and meanderings, tracing an aimless journey such as Charles Baudelaire's figure of the flaneur. The caution tape, plastic bags, and found materials are cut up, fragmenting any traces of text which are later re-configured into "weaving" patterns or "text-tiles" that result in these tunics. The history of the material, its context, and use are re-signified to perform as an Andean textile would, where the abstraction of signs becomes geometries that form a new, encoded language.