Among the spooky everyday scenes set in stone by Isabelle Cornaro is Homonyme 4, a computer setup that's likely to ever see much in the way of upgrades.
Cornaro continues her investigation into how the act of
representation endows objects with value. While in her previous series … she directly scanned piles of objects, here she molds them through a mecanical process as desubjectified as that of scanning. Four works, each entitled
Homonymes (1,2,3 and 4) 2010, present generic gray plaster casts of tables displaying mostly mass produced items. …The Platonic tradition considers an image authentic if it resembles the object that itrepresents. Cornaro subverts this subordination of copy to model. "Homonym" designates words that although identical in spelling or pronunciation, differ in meaning. While the artist's homonyms produce effects of similitude, they refer only to themselves and are, thus, fundamentally unique. As such, intensive qualities appear alongside their meanings and functions dependent on language and social conventions.
But art emulates Etsy, where Formfreunde sells an entire range of concrete office accessories to meet an established demand for Ballardian paperclip holders. (For completists, a concrete desk may be bought at JM Lifestyles, or built yourself)
ISABELLE CORNARO [Balicehertling via VVork]
Formfreunde [Etsy]
