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March 10, 2008 10:53 am
Pretty much any artist will tell you that their best stuff relies on a combination of hard work and happenstance. Patricia Iglesias, for example, had for years been developing “a series of forms,” as she puts it, but wasn’t entirely sure to what end until she stumbled upon a trove of tossed-out floor plans for a hospital in Brooklyn. “The fact that these were hospital rooms really spoke to me,” the New York-based, Buenos Aires-bred artist explained on Friday night, at the opening for her show “On the Absent” at Fake Estate. “I think of a hospital as a place where you lose things,” Iglesias continued, gesturing to one of the pieces she made using those defunct blueprints as her canvas. “You lose people, you lose body parts, you lose consciousness. You might lose your mind. So those forms I’d been working on, when I saw the floor plans, I knew that there was a way to bring the two things together, the dream world and the measured world, to show the ghosts.”
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