Barcelona, June 2009 - Daniel Nevers, 7th artist-in-residence for homesession, is an American artist based in San Francisco. His work is a platform from which he hopes to transform the audience’s perceptions and perspectives. Using home-improvement materials in nonconventional ways, Nevers proposes that “do-it-yourself is the new self-help.” (He begins his artist statement with this slogan, which sheds light on his creative stance toward punk ideology and pop psychology.) He advances a system of artistic production based in contradictions dealing with attraction and repulsion, creation and consumption, and function and form.

1. Daniel Nevers, artista residente en homesession
Barcelona, junio 2009
Presentación pública de su trabajo realizado durante su estancia el sábado 27 de junio 2009 de 19h a 21h.
Bauhouse
On-site installation (patio)
Acrylic, broom heads, non-slip bath
mats, plastic sheeting, tape
TXT :: Christian Obregón*
Barcelona, junio del 2009.- Daniel Nevers, 7º residente de homesession, es un artista norteamericano
de origen francés afincado en la ciudad de San Francisco, cuyo trabajo se ha dado a conocer sobretodo
por tratarse de una plataforma desde la cual el artista pretende transformar (vía la interacción) no sólo el
sistema de interpretación del espectador, sino también las diferentes versiones que, hasta el momento, se
construyen sobre la realidad entendida como un fenómeno compartido.
Auxiliado de materiales home-improvement que utiliza de maneras no convencionales y convencido de que
el “Do-it-yourself is the new self-help” (slogan que además de abrir su statement como artista, aclara su
postura frente a la ideología punk y la psicología pop), Nevers propone un sistema de producción artística
que ve en la dupla atracción/repulsión su máximo acento.
Y es que más que piezas artísticas propiamente dichas, Nevers construye zonas de disconfort que alteran
los espacios para los cuales han sido concebidas, resaltando con esto que cada una de sus intervenciones
resulta no sólo única, sino también atípica e incluso metafísica: “Si nuestras personalidades no son sino
series de defensas, ¿cómo construimos y renovamos esas barreras en un cierto plazo? ¿Cuándo las cosas
que escondemos terminan por revelar más sobre nosotros mismos de lo que protegen?
Discreta, pero concienzudamente, la obra de Nevers avanza planteando pequeñas crisis de fondo en un
universo semiótico que, acostumbrado desde hace tiempo a lo imperecedero de lo moderno, había olvidado
refrendar su posición como regulador no sólo de lo bello, sino también de lo imperfecto.
*Christian Obregón es comisario independiente y periodista cultural. http://fuckindreamer.blogspot.com

2. Daniel Nevers, artist in residency at homesession
Barcelona, June 2009
Public presentation of the work realized during his stay, saturday the 27th of June 2009 from 7 PM to 9 PM.
Minutiae
On-site installation (living room)
Bungee cords, carpet, casters, clamps,
construction lamps, containers,
dowels, drywall, eye hooks, latex, netting,
straps, tape, vinyl
TXT :: Christian Obregón*
Barcelona, June 2009 - Daniel Nevers, 7th artist-in-residence for homesession, is an American artist based
in San Francisco. His work is a platform from which he hopes to transform the audience’s perceptions and
perspectives.
Using home-improvement materials in nonconventional ways, Nevers proposes that “do-it-yourself is the new
self-help.” (He begins his artist statement with this slogan, which sheds light on his creative stance toward
punk ideology and pop psychology.) He advances a system of artistic production based in contradictions
dealing with attraction and repulsion, creation and consumption, and function and form.
For his project at homesession, Nevers will construct areas of discomfort that tamper with the spaces
for which they have been conceived, emphasizing not only the atypical but also the metaphysical. “If our
personalities are nothing but a series of defenses, how do we build and renovate those barriers over time?”
he wonders. “When do the walls we hide behind end up revealing more about us than they protect?”
Discreetly but conscientiously, Nevers’ work reveals the crisis of a semiotic universe that had been fortified by
an everlasting conception of the modern and that had forgotten to consolidate its position as a regulator, not
only for beauty, but also for imperfection.
*Christian Obregón is an independent curator and a cultural journalist. http://fuckindreamer.blogspot.com
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