washer series
1996–PRESENT
worldwasherweb - over 100 washers from more than 30 cities:
Amsterdam, Beirut, Berlin, Bilbao, Boston, Florence, Helsinki, Hong Kong, Jerusalem - Old City, Lisbon, London, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Moscow, New York, Nuweiba, Oracle, Papeete, Paris, Rhinebeck, Rio de Janeiro, Rome, São Paulo, Shanghai, Suzhou, Tel-Aviv, Venice, Vienna
“It is very curious to hear the comments of people who have seen this series of photographs. After seeing images, awareness, a link in the mind is created and being so encounters turn to be possible. They report their encounters with excitement sometimes even bringing the washer as a gift. This kind of behavior shows me how a work of art may expand from its first form, in this case photography/sculpture, creating an Artistic Field around the globe.
Post ready-made
Trasformalism
Sculptural Washer” SF - 1998
Virtual Washer, study for a hologram, 1998
Rome, 1996
New York, 1997
New York, 1999
Amsterdam, 1998
Papeete, French Polynesia, 1997
Chaco Canyon, 1999
Jerusalem, Old City, 1998
New York, 1999
London, 2002
Alaska, 2000
Shanghai 2001
New York, 1997
Beirut, 2004
Bilbao, 1999
Brooklyn, 1998
Virtual Washer, study for a hologram, 1998
“Consider washers, the class of all classes that do not belong to themselves. Where does a discarded washer on the street belong? If a found washer belongs to the class of washers, it should not by the definition of the class of washers. If this washer does not belong to the class of washers, it should by the definition of washers. But this contradiction strikes at the very notion of classes of objects, a paradox with a catastrophic effect on our understanding of the world. I run through it in my mind. The lack of adequate indications to what happens after the washers fall and the ambiguity about precisely what Solange Fabião and her washers are prey to, whatever transform them, these magnificent icons are still what puzzle her and what will continue to puzzle us. […]”
— WASHER, WASHER, WASHER, Yehuda E. Safran, 2000