Mervy Pueblo: 2013 Graduate Thesis | Minneapolis College of Art and Design

Mervy Pueblo: 2013 Graduate Thesis

Through interacting and participating in community, the developing experience brings deeper insights that foster unlimited creativity. It is not the intellectual justification that I focus on in my practice, but rather my real concerns – not academics or art style, but the interest in existentialist condition. It is about the intersubjective real – the two sides of the coin, the gray areas, the un-quantifiable, or the un-definable relation between people in terms of love, hate, fear, and courage.

Being curious about the everyday is a way of seeing how mundane objects are intertwined with the social fabric or the system of society. I think of my practice as a lay ethnographer of the contemporary culture who questions and examines how our social values are shaped by the prevailing disciplinary forces, such as family, education, society, and government.

My recent work manifests the objective of my exploration, that of an ‘openness’ to the world, which brings a limitless potential of interrelations as a positive potential of production. I tend not to conclude meanings for my work, as I see my current practice geared more toward triangulating issues, rather than offering authoritative opinions. I claim no full understanding of what I do, as I would like to keep my options open and free, but I understand my practice as an exploration of relationships and inter-subjectivities.

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