20.05.11-22.05.11
Carla Garlaschi
PLESURE ISLAND
Exebition: Interdisciplinary installation. Painting, sculpture, toys all of them in shiny candy colours. These pieces have been made in Sweden, Chile and Spain.
From the 17 until the 19 of May will be possible to look at the work in process by a small hole in the papers covering the windows of the gallery.
Consept: Pinocchio is a wooden toy that a man has constructed for being like the son he never had, and one day it’s alive, we can say not as a Terminator
planning to kill his creator but as a kind little marionette with brain and some autonomy. Pinocchio goes to school and live life as a normal child, with
the help of a cricket he usually don’t get into trouble, and… I won’t go into details since we know how the story ends… But Carlo Collodi mention in
his tale a place call Paese dei Balloci which after Disneys version has been known as PLEASURE ISLAND, the place where kids go and play all day long,
eat candies, scream and act as they please without any recrimination. Though is in the same PLEASURE ISLAND were this kids get punished. Is in this
specific point, were I have found the interest for my project, in the similarity of PLEASURE ISLAND with what I think the Western World has became. It
may be not a coincidence that from fairy tales like this we’re trying to explain others and ourselves what’s going on here, and how we see reflected in
them what we see everyday. The saturation of information, the endless list of things to buy, of thing to sell, of things people would like to have. There’s
where the desire rice, there’s were we follow this train always returning to the same point. We are in a labyrinth call PLEASURE ISLAND.
Carla Garlaschi (1981) Italian-chilean, lives and work in Stockholm. Studied a B.A in Universidad Católica de Chile, and now is cursing the M.A in
Kungliga Konsthögskolan in Stockholm. Frequently travelling between Stockholm, Spain and Chile as working in them as different platforms. Has been
published in Le Monde Diplomatique(chilean version), collaborates with El Surco(chilean anarchist fanzine) Some selected solo exhibitions are
Portable Mythologies in Vida Museum, Öland and Being Wilfredo Norambuena at Gallery Mejan, Stockholm both during 2010. Collective exhibition
Transfiguración curated by Claudio Herrera Chacana in Galería Stuart, Santiago de Chile 2010.
Biography, images and more information available in
www.carlagarlaschi.com
u09garca@kkh.se
+46 761 272 314