La plus belle poubelle

august 24 - october 27, 2012
mainspace @ artspace

La Belle Poubelle, "economy of means in a mean economy," is a landscape of salvage to be created by Chris Fitch (Boston) and Doug Fitch (NYC). A swamp was created from the cast-out and left-over materials found in a Shreveport warehouse.

Statement from the brothers

“We’re building an indoor swamp, made entirely out of discarded materials, or materials that were once considered very useful and have somehow become obsolete…

And it’s interesting to make a swamp, because from the perspective of developers, swamps are often seen issueless places, places to get filled in, places to build malls upon.

As we get more sophisticated in a geological sense, we realize that swamps are where all the creativity is in the world… all that life is happening in that source material of a swamp.”

“…It is our impact on nature, shaping nature itself, and what it would be like to have a nature shaped completely by human activity, created by the “rubbish” of human activity.

Building a swamp is our analysis of contemporary anthropology of the world - is this something we should throw away forever or is this a new resource? Is it possible to think about a waste-free society? “

EXHIBITING ARTISTs:
the brothers fitch
(Doug and Chris)

With local artists Julie Glass, Jeormie Journell, James Marks and Roald Simonson.