Jasmina Llobet & Luis Fernández Pons
The Morse Code Sprinklers Test
showing at the Irish Museum of Modern Art
The Process Room
01.06.10 – 13.06.10
West Wing, First Floor Galleries
Late Opening on Wednesday 09.06.10 from 6-8pm
as part of the opening IMMA exhibitions
Carlos Garaicoa and Ferran Garcia Sevilla
The Morse Code Sprinklers Test is an installation consisting of two sprinklers
set on timers spraying water on the windows outside of IMMA’s Process
Room, their syncopated rhythm is a prototype for the development of a
series of projects which will use Morse code. Llobet and Pons are
experimenting with the boundaries of how Morse code can be transmitted,
imagining and adapting this mode of communication to unexpected objects
and situations.
A system has been created that brings water for the sprinklers from a sink
located in one of IMMA’s public toilets, the water is brought to the Process
Room via two garden hoses hanging externally on the main entrance façade
to the Museum. The Morse Code Sprinklers Test contains a playful
component dealing with the issues of waste and its regulations, it also
introduces a noisy and somehow violent element in the traditional “silence”
of the museum.
Also on show in the Process Room is a series of eleven drawings which are
influenced by everyday objects such as a hat, a piano or a hair brush. These
drawings are manipulated into architectural and geometrical abstractions of
the original items. This is a series which commenced while on residency in
Japan and has continued as a strand of their studio practice at IMMA.
Llobet & Pons' artistic practice focuses on the broad concept of everyday
objects and the language of things, these ideas being the starting point for
various multidisciplinary projects. After a careful study of the context in
which they find themselves working, through dialogue, through playful
investigations and the frequent use of humour and irony, the artists
approach matters of importance and banality in society. Llobet & Pons are
particularly interested in the relationship between objects and artefacts,
turning elements from the everyday upside down and using them as
significant entities to build intricate combinations and let new metaphors and
meanings emerge.
Jasmina Llobet and Luis Fernández Pons are a Spanish artist collective based
in Berlin working together since 2002 across the fields of installation, object
sculpture and art in public space. Recent solo exhibitions include Kino no nai
hahen, Studio Kura Gallery, Fukuoka, Japan, 2009 and Mikroplan, Kunstraum
Delikatessenhaus, Leipzig, Germany, 2009. Recent group exhibitions include
Hello World, Itokoku Historical Museum, Fukuoka, Japan 2009 and Manifesta
7, Project Tabula Rasa, Bolzano/Bozen, Italy 2008. They have participated on
residencies in Istanbul at Platform Garanti and in South Korea and Japan.
Further information on Llobet and Pons’ practice can be found at www.llobetpons.net.
THE PROCESS ROOM FACILITATES ACCESS TO THE ONGOING PRACTICE OF ARTISTS CURRENTLY
RESIDENT AT IMMA. THIS RESIDENCY PROGRAMME IS LOCATED IN THE STUDIOS ADJACENT TO THE
MAIN MUSEUM BUILDING WHERE SEVERAL STUDIOS ARE ALLOCATED TO BOTH NATIONAL AND
INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS. THE PROCESS ROOM IS USED ON A ROTATING BASIS BY THE ARTISTS ON THE
ARP.
This project has been realised with the generous support of SEACEX and IMMA. Many thanks to Enrique
Juncosa, Janice Hough, Ronnie Lawlor, Cillian Hayes, Edmond Kiely, Mary Condon and the Office of Public
Works.
For more information about the Artists’ Residency Programme please contact Janice Hough,
ARP Co-ordinator, Tel + 353.1.612 9905 or janice.hough@imma.ie Website www.imma.ie