Miguel Caba's Repetition 3740
Miguel Caba 's Repetition 3740
Opens in the Window Box Gallery Jan 15 and runs until Jan 31.
Gallery 1313, 1313 Queen Street West, Toronto.
Gallery 1313, 1313 Queen Street West, Toronto.
Curated by Carpos Collective
An act as simple as painting a square more than 3000 times
is a metaphor to describe the patterns within our lives. Repetition 3740 blurs
the lines of perceived action. Influenced by clothing manufacturing (hand
dying the fabric and stitching over multiple days), the creation of this work
both degraded my mental processing and built skill within the specific
crafts. By simplifying specific iterative motions, a once
underappreciated job is identified by repetitive motion. A scientist testing
drug samples that utilities a repeated pattern of motion is prestigious
compared to a garment worker that can sew jeans yet they are essentially the
same. Our biological limitations determine that we use the same motions in
everything we do. Understanding the limitations of human motion allow the
deconstruction of specific subjects and transformation of their value from
clear to vague. Repetition 3740 uses humans to create a very human infinity.