Have you seen my dirty laundry?

Laundered Paintings

Daniel Walcher

Student
Daniel Walcher
Academic staff
Diego Tonus
Course
ORIGINAL COPY
Program
BA Major Art
Semester
2022/23 SS

Daniel Walcher
Laundered Paintings
Ink on cotton canvas, metal hanger, plastic wrapping, and paper tag
Painting
2023

 

Laundered Paintings is an ongoing series in which each piece derives from a personal clothing item belonging to the artist’s closet. In this peculiar painting practice, each canvas is treated differently presenting on itself different ink-marks patterns permeating the unprimed surfaces. The canvases are then brought to a dry cleaner service that processes the pieces.

Stemming from weekly trips to the dry cleaner, the Laundered Paintings series is a work in which the line between canvas and clothing becomes blurred. With introductions, specific for each painting, to the dry cleaner the canvas and ink of each painting gets partially erased, ironed, and folded.

When exhibited, the Laundered Paintings are both shown in the exhibition space and at the dry cleaning shop. In the exhibition space, the canvases are shown following an archival system that stores each piece according to the washing parameters, originating clothing item, and ink used. At the dry cleaner, each piece could be experienced during the opening hours of the dry cleaning service by asking for the paintings.

A project made in the course

ORIGINAL COPY

ORIGINAL COPY is devised as a space where participants question the meaning of an ‘original’ and its ‘copy’ in contemporary art by exploring various practices of reproduction, copying, and remaking, as well as examining their power as active gestures and critical interpretations to arrive to a ‘new original’. What reproduction modes and techniques are available nowadays to an artist? What is the meaning of ‘original’ in the historical moment we are living in and what is its relationship to authenticity? What is a copy and what is a ‘new original’?
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