Argentinian post-conceptual artist Jorge Macchi (1963) uses everyday objects and places them out of their context, highlighting the unobvious and the frequently ignored. Using principles of fiction, inversion, paradox, and metamorphosis, Macchi's work questions the assumed order of things, challenging the predictable and the known. Working across a wide range of media including drawing, painting, video or sculpture, Macchi's poetic visual language highlights the ephemeral and the fleeting, shifting the viewers' experience of the world and everyday life.

- Sunglight, (2008),
a floor sculpture composed of six yellow box-like panels, reminiscent of a grid, is one of the artist's many attempts to transform the ordinary of the everyday into the un-natural. Making sunlight and shadow the point of departure of the work, Macchi converts the immaterial and the fleeting dimension of time into a static object. Despite its three-dimensional character, the work is a translation of a sun cast shadow of an otherwise absent window prolonging an otherwise transient moment into infinity. Despite its formal qualities reminiscent of the language of minimalism, the work is, in fact, a sculptural materialization of the immaterial. The work on the one hand, echoes the paradox and absurdity connected to the need of materializing and compartmentalizing every part of reality, usually tied to the necessity of transforming immateriality into commodity, while on the other hand a poetic play on the idea of overcoming temporality by capturing and sealing an otherwise ephemeral moment in time.

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