ALICIA PILLER

No safe harbors. No more vacations.
Recycled screen printing ink, vinyl, Polaroids, Polaroid camera parts, watercolor
38” x 36” x 4”
2020

At the foundation of Alicia Piller’s method is the reuse of discarded things and the transformation of the cast-off into objects of contemplation and power. Some of her transformations are monumental in scale, some small and intimate. In every case she introduces an enlived element into the otherwise forgotten.

In No safe harbors. No more vacations. Piller takes apart and reconfigures pieces of an old-school instant camera and discarded Polaroid cases, remaking them into a kinetic collage that twists and unfurls around a central core. Piller’s work opens questions about how memory operates via exploding the camera and reconstituting it. Like her other work, the piece is a static object that attempts also to capture a sense of time, action, and change, a metaphor in for human acts of making sense of a chaotic world.