Elkin Muñoz. Escola d'Art La Industrial. Selected Graduate 2019

Escola d'Art La Industrial, Barcelona, Spain.


1 gramo

Value is, in its most comprehensive consideration, the starting point of this project, together with 1 gr.. Signature pieces can only highlight what every single person subjectively perceives about their shape and title, however, they've been crafted under the basic premise of repurposing elements, items, parts... When the value of every and each material is questioned, how is DNA quantified? And tears? How about the current value of water? Or the ancient value of salt (salary)?

Hence, the fact of reusing imbues them with a dichotomy of worth; used things, recycled things, collected things, broken things... are commonly considered less valuable. But here the approach is right the opposite, the value of respecting the planet as opposed to excessive consumerism, the new life of things, seeing them beyond their first use, their first life. It's from this second point of view where the concept of value gets its basic positive meaning.

Shibuichi (copper/silver and sometimes gold) contributes to this idea of new use, and it's the alloy used as the metallic support in most of the pieces. In this project, the concept 1 gr. leads to narrowing down and contextualizing; because, in a work about value, we need to be able to quantify, indeed, to question all measurement or prejudice. That is: a quantifiable, measurable, weighable, identifiable value is needed to spell out and break if the occasion arises, its original meaning.


Name of graduation student: Elkin Muñoz
Name of the guiding teacher: Sònia Serrano

More work and contact:
Instagram: elkinmunyoz


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