Smooth sailing surface (beige), 2015
Teddy bear, beach rocks, glass, TOTAL car glass cleaning detergent containers
19 (H) x 150 (diam) cm

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Care concepts
Exhibition view, monCHÉRI, Brussels
January 24 – February 21, 2015

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Whole Sale Anthropometry I, 2015
Wall table clothe, stamping, 190 x 145 cm 

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Care concepts
Exhibition view, monCHÉRI, Brussels
January 24 – February 21, 2015

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Mess doesn’t rest – and neither do we., 2015
Bleeched teddy bear, beach rocks, 115 x 150 x 30 cm

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Care concepts
Exhibition view, monCHÉRI, Brussels
January 24 – February 21, 2015

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Whole Sale Anthropometry III, 2015
Wall table clothe, stamping, 190 x 145 cm

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Smooth sailing surface (tan), 2015
Teddy bear, beach rocks, glass, 19 (H) x 150 (diam) cm

all images: © DEBORA DELMAR CORP – photo: HUGARD & VANOVERSCHELE
Courtesy of the artist and monCHÉRI, Brussels

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For Care Concepts, DEBORA DELMAR CORP.’ solo exhibition at monCHERI in Brussels, the artist lines the exhibition’s space with a series of pieces created especially for the Belgian gallery. In a broad-stroke gesture, she used as a pattern large teddy bears that she imprinted on blue textiles, transformed by discolouring them and employed like display.

This work follows up the previous investigations of DEBORA DELMAR CORP. (born 1986, Mexico City) which dealt with the interplays between domesticated affect and cognitive patterns, with the new physical and psychological relationships generates by the ‘dematerialized’ society as well as the aesthetics emanating from the techniques of propagation and assimilation of the commercial realm.

‘Care Concepts is proposed as a domestic fantasy, extrapolated from a bit of fluff to that of the anthropomorphic dimension bought at Costco, the ‘paradise of the white, middle-class’. The artist declines it as a motive, and fictionalises the social and psychological values tied to it. These ‘bodies’ are transformed in accordance with different stages, from an object of consumption to one of interior design. Contained under glass tables, they evoke a body ‘asphyxiated’ by pre-established rules and norms‘. – CLARA GUISLAIN