Scaffolding Windows are paintings without paint.
They were created with the intention of finding an ultimate use of the discarded scaffolding netting after having used it previously for other artworks: Synthetic Waters and Open Cave. With a background in oil painting and informed by it, the rectangle is a very appealing form to me and I always tend to look in that direction. The painting also has an object quality that the installation doesn’t have and therefore signifies to me the last possible use of the reused materials.
Scrap window frames became the solution to the traditional wooden stretcher I was missing. Windows have also a strong meaning to me as both connection and disconnection point with the outside. They allow us to see the landscape through them but they are also what evidence our dislocation and separation with what is out there.
SCAFFOLDING WINDOW - ORANGE I.
Scaffolding netting stretched onto a window frame.
100 x 120 cm.
2024
Photo by Juan David Cortés
SCAFFOLDING WINDOW - ORANGE II.
Scaffolding netting stretched onto a window frame.
100 x 120 cm.
2024
Photo by Juan David Cortés
SCAFFOLDING WINDOW - BLACK.
Scaffolding netting stretched onto a window frame.
100 x 115 cm.
2024
Photo by Juan David Cortés
SCAFFOLDING WINDOW - BLUE.
Scaffolding netting stretched onto a window frame.
210 x 122 cm.
2020
I used the marks and trades left on the netting to paint without paint. The window is enclosed: the scaffolding netting is getting back its old use, hiding what’s behind it. The artificial colour of the scaffolding netting, with its holes and marks stretched on the window frame, creates a subtle uncanny feeling of something artificial, yet dead and obsolete.
SCAFFOLDING WINDOW - GREEN.
Scaffolding netting stretched onto a window frame.
93 x 117 cm (196 to the floor)
2020