the things that stayed (image of installation)

study table 2
steel, plaster, archival e-flute corrugated board, archival foam, vellum, PH-balanced tape

study table 2
detail

study shelf with Silang’s Index Describing the Flora of the Philippines, Vol 1.
steel, archival e-flute corrugated board, archival foam, artist book, steel goose neck arm, 2:30 min looping video on iPhone

study shelf with Silang’s Index Describing the Flora of the Philippines, Vol 1.

28 minutes, 3:30pm
collaborative work with Dan Paz
4.25in white ceramic tile, liquid light, plywood

28 minutes, 3:30pm
detail

The things that stayed (with Dan Paz)

2023
installation of sculptural and photographic works with archival objects, video, artist book, ceramic tiles, and assemblage
SOIL
Seattle, WA

The things that stayed is the continuation of an ongoing dialogue between alejandro t. acierto and Dan Paz. Often moving in parallel motion, their work and research traces the non-linear opportunities of photography to shape the expanded conditions of capture. The things that stayed conflates contentious framings of the shower and the archive that seek to fix unstable histories entangled in the weaponization of resources. Throughout this work, they illuminate the tensions and complications of holding and touch where the shower and the archive become slippery institutional spaces understood as multivalent sites of access and foreclosure, where preservation becomes a troubled site to ask “what is it that we are preserving?” Together, these artists gesture toward the citational possibility of architecture that remains.

images by alejandro and Dan. Ceramic works, including tiled installations, by Dan Paz.