Jorge Pantoja Everyone Goes Home at the End of the Day February 1 - March 15, 2015
curated by william cordova
under the bridge is pleased to present Everyone Goes Home at the End of the Day, a one person exhibition of mixed media collages and sculpture by artist Jorge Pantoja. This is the artist’s first extensive presentation of his sculpture work produced within the past 3 years. Everyone Goes Home at the End of the Day presents a body of work that is in a constant state of flux. Shifting with an emphasis towards the concrete and quotidian. Pantoja's everyday is a diary filled with cinematic like vignettes of what may seem at first to be fragmented narratives, random public and personal observations critically scrutinized and interpreted through a poised filter. "the hand-made do it yourself construction of the piece is readily discernible in its technique and materiality. Using scissors and glue, the small black and white images are grouped and pasted together like a storyboard."
-C.Ondine Chavoya and Rita Gonzalez (Asco: Elite of the Obscure)
"someone said to me: You have not woken into wakefulness but to a previous dream. That dream is within another, and so on to the infinite, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you will have to retrace is interminable and will die before having truly woken up" -Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Pantoja is in many ways a conceptualist filmmaker who, instead of using celluloid, constructs epic moments of our idiosyncratic landscape with ephemera, refuse and office supplies. Mapping multiple terrains and archiving evidence of his past and our present-
Chronicling the pedestrian… the uncommon… the elite and obscure.
"For wanting to fly off
To the unknown
Or the known… "
-Yukio Mishima (Sun and Steel)
