Un movimiento concreto I-VI (A Concrete Movement I-VI)

Un movimiento concreto (A Concrete Movement) is a sculpture made from vinyl records purchased from a second-hand record shop in San Salvador. The records, bent at a ninety-degree angle and assembled to attain multiple planes, sit atop a mirror base installed on a wooden pedestal with gestural, pictorial interventions in the form of graffiti. The work references the Brazilian artist Lygia Clark and the series of geometric sculptures she made in the 1960s entitled Bichos (Bugs) and which employed aluminium and hinges to be manipulated by the public.
Cárcamo’s allusions to Clark draw a parallel with the assemblages through which DJs compose and modify music. As the artist explains: “I apply a physical and conceptual process by transforming real vinyl records into new sculptures. It is a homage to my urban roots and also alludes to another important element of the genre, given that Lygia Clark viewed her work as a form of social sculpture, just as I see the way in which DJs alter sound as a kind of collective social sculpture in time and space”.

Suset Sánchez Sánchez