- Anthony Goicolea
- Deconstruction, 2007
- Black and white photograph on alumninum, laminated with non-glare Plexiglas
- 72 x 117.5 in (182.88 x 298.45 cm)
- Inv: 3922
Gift of Hedy Fischer and Randy Shull
In Deconstruction, Anthony Goicolea presents a semi-demolished apartment building whose facade has been removed, exposing dingy, barren interiors. Amid the rubble, men and women rest in hammocks attached to the remaining walls, with metal rods and crumbling bits of the facade dangling precariously around them. The swirling storm clouds overhead could have been plucked straight from the skies of Romantic landscape painter Caspar David Friedrich.
Through this work, Goicolea, whose family immigrated from Cuba, illuminates the challenges faced by immigrants in adapting and fitting in. Just as immigrants may seek comfort in uncertain territory, Goicolea’s subjects fit themselves into crumbling industrial wreckage to find temporary respite.
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