Lara Favaretto
The Time Tunnel I, 2012
Carwash brushes, iron slabs, motors, electrical boxes, wires
Variable dimensions
Describing her practice as an investigation of “the space between destruction, reconstruction, collapse and recovery,” Lara Favaretto often employs industrial materials and objects. In a series of installations, including Time Tunnel, she employed rotating carwash brushes both for their formal qualities—a mass of bristles that rise and fall with movement—and to animate and disrupt visitors’ paths through the galleries. When activated, visitors must pass through or around the air vortexes created by the animate sculpture. Though familiar elements of the urban landscape, these brushes are usually encountered inside the safety of a car, creating a simultaneous sense of exposure and playfulness.