Cigarette Butt Street Rug

Overview

The projects that I develop promote social interaction with authority and the structures of power in society. The outcome eventually emerges as an art work sometimes in the form of a "document". Thus, I maintain a vehicle between the relationships that I develop in the public sphere, and the sphere of the art world and art spaces.
Jesus Bubu Negron

A 'conceptual romantic', Bubu creates objects, performances and public sculptures that have a strong lineage to art history – Conceptual Art, Land Art, Arte Povera – but are linked to the place for which they are conceived in a very direct and deeply personal way. Often involving local communities, his work becomes a social event as much it is a form of visual poetry, reflecting on social, environmental and political realities.

Whether he goes fishing with Lithunian fishermen, using nets knitted from the thrown away plastic wraps of six packs (Transmallo, 2003); recreates Michelangelo Pistoletto’s Minus Object Rosa Bruciata (Burned Rose, 1965) handcrafted from drug addicts from San Juan as a gigantic version of the little roses that Puerto Rico’s junkies make from palm leaves to sell them on the street (Rosa Tekata (Junky Rose, 2005), for the Turin Triennale) – or, like here in Sharjah, buries an old fisher boat with sand as an answer to Robert Smithson’s iconic Partially Buried Woodshed (1970) – the simple gesture points beyond the sheer object and its art historical reference, bridging the gap between the social sphere and the secured realm of art
Eva Scharrer

This project was part of Sharjah Biennial 8.