Aeron Bergman and Alejandra Salinas

COPIOUS TROPHY

 

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JULY 22-AUGUST 5
Aeron Bergman and Alejandra Salinas: “Copious Trophy”
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For our new work at INCA we purchased on the internet a hand painted “old masters” photo backdrop and a customized do-it-yourself trophy kit. The practice of taking body parts as spoils of war is nearly universal. Determining who is an enemy, and thus a potential trophy, is a complicated sociological construction. In pre-colonial America, for example, groups who spoke the same language often formed alliances with one another in order to attack the “scalpables”, those who did not speak the same language. Today’s trophies are inflated to include mundane business and legal victories.

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12_aa_roomAeron Bergman and Alejandra Salinas
“Copious Trophy”
Hand painted “old masters” photo backdrop, three customized do-it-yourself trophy kits, bricks wrapped in pages from the Wall Street Journal, scrapped copper pipe, found boot, found glove, found hardhat and snapdragon.
2012

18_aa_pole 17_aa_boot 16_aa_hardhat2 15_aa_glove 14_aa_room3 13_aa_room210_aa_ikebana12“Ikebana No. 12”
Aeron Bergman and Alejandra Salinas
2012
Cut flowers in Pewabic vase

19_aa_ikebana13“Ikebana No. 13”
Aeron Bergman and Alejandra Salinas
2012
Twigs and frame.