Out of Reserves

Isabel Banal’s piece, In the Basket, from 2017, is part of a series in which an anonymous body is placed inside various everyday domestic containers, such as a carrycot, a bucket, a plastic fruit box and different types of baskets. In this case, the body picks up a basket, an object that invokes tradition, the countryside and peasantry, and which today has been relegated to folkloric status. It is a gesture that focuses the gaze on the weight that tradition has had in the development of Western cultures and on the fact that a good part of the work was done by women

This is one of the first pieces in a long series made with laser on denim; the result of an experimentation process that concluded at the IAAC FabLab in Barcelona in 2014. It is an experience that gave rise to various works, some produced for the third part of the exhibition cycle curated by Martí Manen and David Armengol at the Fabra i Coats in Barcelona and others for a solo show at the Kunstverein Hildesheim in Germany entitledMit eigener Hand(With One’s Own Hands).