Symbolic Deterritorialization: The Case of Gabriel Orozco

Jesús Segura Cabañero^*

Department of Fine Arts, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain.

DOI: 10.4236/adr.2015.31001                

Abstract

In a global context the artistic production has developed its critical processes from the inclusion and participation of audience in the works of art. Somehow the expansion and compression of space-time is reflected in the characteristics of many artists whose work is based on the occupying, mapping and reinterpreting of the spaces that they appropriate. This article tries to analyze the spatial and temporal turn defined by the works of artist Gabriel Orozco, The individual and collective memories, spaces of history, politics and culture are signified by the act of symbolic deterrito-rialization and reterritorialization. The article also analysed the phenomenological and material treatment of objects of Gabriel Orozco in his temporal frequency and perceptual reinterpretation in the context of cultural and political globalization in order to confront symbolic deterritorialization as a resource of his artistic production.

Keywords

Space, Time, Deterritorialization, Symbolic, Gabriel Orozco

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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