Taxonomy of an existence

YEAR 2011

Taxonomy of an existence

Baseball cards, travel memorabilia, old T-shirts, vintage cell phones… These common objects that pile up …

Baseball cards, travel memorabilia, old T-shirts, vintage cell phones… These common objects that pile up in our homes and have apparenty no use or value are the ones that define us through their stories.

At least according to Mac Premo, a Brooklyn-based collage artist whose longtime studio was a sanctuary for an assortment of objects accumulated over decades.

Faced with the prospect of moving to a smaller studio and throwing his stuff away, Mac decided instead that each object would see a new life as part of a work of art.

Mac has converted a 30-foot long industrial dumpster into an exhibition space where each object is discretely displayed to form a giant three-dimensional and sentimental collage – a modern-day “cabinet of curiosities” telling the story of his life through the objects he collected, as well as a work of transportable public art.

After premiering at the DUMBO Arts Festival last September, The Dumpster Project has recently exhibited at PULSE Contemporary Art Fair in Miami. In conjunction with the installation, Mac has catalogued and photographed every single item of the installation on his Dumpster Project Blog.

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