Claudia Repilado Miranda

I intend to work operating in the plane between the collective and the personal, setting up personal discourses which function symbolically within a larger social discourse.

In my piece “For Antigone”, the space of the show is used for exhibiting the present I made for an old lady- this takes form as an installation- and it is the space where an event in her life would take place if she collects the gift on the last day of the show. The exhibition is part of a series of actions (meeting her, visiting her house, making the gift) in which the public of the gallery becomes an involuntary part of. The ‘status’ of the object is raised as it is exhibited among art and it gains an extra value by receiving the eyes of numerous visitors. Placed at the ‘margins’ of the show, the object conveys the cultural aesthetic of gifts, offerings, altars and shrines.
The installation is a typical theatrical display and functions entirely differently once the viewer has read the text placed at the entrance of the space.