While being confronted with Martin Puryear’s bench sculptures at The New School, a work commissioned during the late 80’s and the idea of the phallic symbol, I decided to produce interventions on them through my performance practice with suggestive corporeal gestures to further open a dialogue of attempted censorship during that era. These benches were made with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts during the «Culture Wars», a period when said governmental organization was implementing a series of censorships, particularly against visual artists.
Position no.01 (Interventions on Three Benches), 2016
Digital impression / Inkjet print
44″ x 60″
Position no.22 (Interventions on Three Benches), 2017
Digital impression / Inkjet print
44″ x 60″
Position no.18 (Interventions on Three Benches), 2017
Digital impression / Inkjet print
44″ x 60″
Kevin Quiles Bonilla 