PENTA PACK

Observing how human beings join and group things together, I’m struck by how many of the objects around us come perfectly pressed, contained, and packaged—forming compact, sealed blocks. This societal obsession with the preservation and protection of things, as well as with space economy, has led to everything being integrated into a logical and practical industrial system.

What would happen if we applied these practical systems of everyday objects to the object of painting? What kind of object would painting become? If, in traditional painting, the stretcher has contained it for centuries, why not now contain it from different positions and through new methodologies? Why not conceive a painting based on this idea of a reduced, compact, and hermetic block?

The Penta Pack project stems from these questions, aiming to explore new formal and conceptual systems within the structure of painting. By studying various systems of fastening and containment found in everyday objects, the project seeks to translate them into this new proposal. The outcome will be a structure composed of five blocks of paint (hence the title Penta Pack), to move away from the traditional framework of the medium, and discover new containment systems that hold and shape painting from a different position.