SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW

Objects, plastic, 3D-printing. 2016 

On any classifieds site, there is a category of things that are given away for free. Such items can no longer be repaired, but their owners did not want to throw them away after all. It's a kind of "cultural garbage. Artist Max Mesiats took these objects and asked the owners about their history. By doing "useless" archiving, transferring things from everyday life into the realm of art, Max made copies of each of these objects on a 3-D printer.

These plastic copies of objects were "born" by the machine without human touch, thus emphasizing the alienation of the object from the human at several stages at once: the simple separation from the beloved object on the ad site was followed by a disintegration of the human relationship to the ordinary object. A total stratification of form and matter. Extending this "separation" to its fullest, the artist accompanies the exposition of these white copies of found objects with a cold, automated reading out of all the intimate stories shared with him by the former owners of these pieces.

The objects, deprived of their functionality, have become faceless white substances, and their "unique" stories have become monotonous boring sound. The remaining perfect cast-ins of non-degradable plastic may be found by archaeologists many years later as ancient artifacts. They are artifacts of the future.