Sheikh, Simon and Alex Villar. A Conversation about Alex Villar’s work (New York: Danger Museum/Apexart, 2003)
Drawing from interdisciplinary theoretical sources and employing video-based, performative actions, installation and photography, I have developed a practice that concentrates on matters of social space. My interventions are done primarily in public spaces. They consist in engaging situations where the codes that regulate everyday activity can be made explicit. The body is made to conform to the limitations of claustrophobic spaces, therefore accentuating arbitrary boundaries and possibly subverting them. A sense of absurdity permeates the work, counterpoising irrational behavior to the instrumental logic of the city’s design.
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