In the plant’s abstraction laboratory

25th March 2022The Library of the FutureAdam Szymczyk, André du Colombier, Antonio Vidal, Candice Hopkins, Ernest Mancoba, Lisa Nakamura, Marilou Schultz, Navajo weaving, Quinn Latimer, Sedje Hémon, The documenta 14 ReaderMinus Plato

From 1965 to 1975, the Fairchild Corporation operated an electronic assembling plant in Shiprock, New Mexico, on a Navajo reservation, employing mostly Indigenous women. The circuit boards that the Navajo workers crafted were used in early computers, calculators, and missile guidance systems. Their abstract designs were not unlike the geometric abstractions of Navajo weavings, which […]

Alpha to Omega of Our Athens Nostalgia: X is for Xerocheilia

9th July 2017Alpha to and Omega of Our Athens Nostalgia, documenta 14, Minus Plato TodayAndré du Colombier, documenta 14, Francis Ponge, Posidippus, sarah goetzMinus Plato

Were you especially excited to stumble across the work of André du Colombier? What drew you in more, his words or his colors? To the alternation of red, red and white or the words un | jour | rouge? Did your eyes prize out the words from the copper on the wall or lose them […]