Distributed Monuments is a body of work made of dust transferred onto latex casts and enclosed in light boxes. Each cast is extracted from distinct site-specific interventions performed by Otero-Pailos as part of his ongoing, decade-long investigative series of works called The Ethics of Dust.
The artworks’ materials come from historically charged monuments such as Westminster Hall in London, the Doge’s Palace in Venice, or the U.S. Old Mint in San Francisco.
Designed to be easily transported, Distributed Monuments question our relationship with building as cultural objects and inspire us to care for the object as such, to become cultural stewards.
An Olfactory Reconstruction of the Philip Johnson Glass House
2008
Exhibited in New Canaan, Connecticut.
An Olfactory Reconstruction of the Philip Johnson Glass House is a project of a series of three smells based on archival research that reconstruct the 1949, 1959 and 1969 smells of this iconic American house, now belonging to the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Limited edition print
Archival ink on Hahnemuhle Paper
Edition of 30
2018
17 x 23 inches print size
Charcoal, watercolor on paper
25 x 35 cm
Charcoal, watercolor on paper
35 x 25 cm
Charcoal, watercolor on paper
35 x 25 cm
Crayon and pencils on paper
2008
Mixed Media - Acrylic Paint on Wood
2008
Mixed Media - Acrylic Painting on Poster
27 x 39.5 inches (68.5 x 100.3 cm)
2005
2005
Mixed Media - Acrylic Painting on Poster
41 x 30 inches (104.1 x 76.2 cm)
Mixed Media - Acrylic Painting on Poster
32 x 23 inches (81.2 x 58.4 cm)
2014 ; Traditional c-print ;
80 x 48 inches (203.2 x 122 cm) ; Edition of 5
40 x 24 inches (101.6 x 61 cm) ; Edition of 10
In the collection of the MIT Museum ; Exhibited at the Keller Gallery (Cambridge, MA)
This photograph documents the precise re-enactment of Harold Edgerton's iconic 1964 ’Bullet Through Apple,' The photograph was produced at MIT with Edgerton's original rifle, camera, flash and other instruments, which are now museum pieces. A flash of one third of one millionth of a second stops a .30 caliber bullet piercing through the core of a Macintosh apple at Mach 2.39. The re-enactment uncovered that Edgerton had flipped his negative while printing, a fact that had escaped art history.
This video by the MIT Museum documents the making of "Space-Time 1964/2014"
2016. Limited Edition Archival Pigment Print ; 21 × 29.7 cm or 8.27 × 11.69 in. ; Edition of 200
2010 ; Limited Edition Archival Pigment Print ;
16 x 17 3/4 inches (40.6 x 45 cm) ; Edition of 200
10 7/8 x 12 inches (27.6 x 30.5 cm) ; Edition of 400
2012 ; Archival Pigment Print ; 22 x 32 in. (55.8 x 81.2 cm) ; Edition of 30.
The "Drama" is envisioned as the ironic post-financial crisis currency. The new Drama note is inspired in the old Greek Dra(ch)ma. Every note is signed "Otero-Pailos" as treasurer.
