"Launch Pad Artist Project: Johanna Unzueta 'Iron Folklore'" Exhibition
Queens Museum of Art
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"Iron Folklore" is an extensive site-specific installation work by Johanna Unzueta as part of the QMA's Launch Pad Artist Residency and Project program. Drawing from her recurrent interest in the history of labor, Unzueta creates sculptural and environmental installations often made exclusively of thick felt. Iron Folklore occupies the museum’s elevator and the second floor balcony area with a subtle, yet powerful response to a socio-cultural narrative found in the gritty industrial area known as the “Iron Triangle” in Willets Point, within walking distance of the museum. The Iron Triangle, has been the home of auto repair shops, scrap yards, waste processing sites, and similar small businesses since the 1950s, but it’s rich, if not sordid, history is soon to end with a new urban renewal plan. Transforming and connecting the spaces in the museum with shapes of industrial elements made of felt, Unzueta’s "Iron Folklore" addresses the contradictory notions of and the relationships between labor and culture in a local context.
[Image: Johanna Unzueta "Detail from 'Iron Folklore'" (2009). Work in progress in artist's studio.]
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Schedule
from May 10, 2009 to November 28, 2009
Opening Reception on 2009-05-10 from 17:00 to 20:00