Work from the Collection

Intermediate Preventive

Artist: Cameron Rowland
Date of creation: 2015
Domain: Installation
Medium: Sculpture
Materials: Pipes, Cables, Straps
Collection: Lafayette Anticipations - Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin
Date of acquisition: 2015
Cameron Rowland, Intermediate Preventive, Installation, 2015, Collection Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin © DR

“Intermediate Preventive is used for cables and wires installed outside” says Cameron Rowland. “It was designed for safety lighting or a surveillance camera. The metallic sheath prevents the cables from being cut. Intermediate Preventive is also made up of an ultra-resistant lighting system commonly used by New York’s Housing Authority. This light integrated into the work could never be part of a collection; it will always remain the property of the artist”. Inverting the usual relationship between artwork and viewer, Intermediate Preventive is a device that may be looking at you, while it foils those devices artists surrender to when they cede ownership of their work. The work points a mocking finger at economic domination in the art world, and seeks to actively resist it.


Exhibition

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Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (France)
from 11 Oct 2019 to 16 Feb 2020

À propos de l'artiste

Cameron Rowland

Born in 1988 in Philadelphie, États-Unis

Cameron Rowland ayant collaboré avec des bureaux d’architecture à New York et à Copenhague, son travail est grandement influencé par l’architecture. Ses installations explorent souvent les relations entre l’espace d’exposition et l’espace public. L’artiste prête également attention à l’histoire des lieux où ses installations prennent place, ainsi qu’à leurs propriétés physiques et esthétiques particulières.

Né en 1988 à Philadelphie (États-Unis), Cameron Rowland est diplômé d’un Bachelor of Arts de la Wesleyan University de Middletown (Connecticut, États-Unis). Il vit et travaille à New York.
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