Luna Palazzolo-Daboul

Lives and works in Miami, FL, USA

Artist statement

A conductor. At this moment, I see and experience my practice as both a shadow and a reflection, moving across different areas of my life. I spent a relatively long period trying to understand what I wanted to do with my work, and eventually arrived at an intersection where my primary interests rest on the following narratives: the relationship between material and object; the dynamic between sculpture and space; and the gendered connotations surrounding labor, work, activity, attention, and devotion, as well as institutional structures ranging from the governmental to the familial. I find it ironic and funny to consider my use of industrial materials as a form of cultural appropriation: taking something from the historically masculine figure of the artistic genius and adapting it to procedures and preconceptions associated with femininity in art, such as arrangement, domesticity, ornamentation, and the cosmetic application of paint. This space of conflict allows me to work through certain questions that, more often than not, only leave me with further uncertainty. Because the work cannot be conceptually separated from its physicality, I understand the creation of the object through which it takes form as an almost performative activity in which I am simultaneously the star and the audience. For me, the replication of the object functions like an assembly line: I must carry out every task in the process in the same way, hoping that each replica contains the same degree of...

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