Gargoyles
2025
3 channel synchronised video and sound installation on LED video walls, screen printed murals
installation view Jan van Eyck Academie Open Studios, Maastricht
Gargoyles is an ongoing project that characterises different masculine archetypes and places them in dialogue with each other. Animated as cartoon mouths, these are gargoyles in the metaphorical sense—caricatures of failing men. The gargoyles enact modes of masculine and patriarchal communication through interactions between themselves and with the viewer. The mood is one of confusion—somewhere between comedic and threatening. Languages of dominance and submission, as well as vulnerability and weakness, unfold. The theme of the interactions circulates around the act of laughter, instances of humour, ridicule and humiliation in a multitude of different scenarios of masculine relationships, devliered in short interactions.
Directly on the walls are screenprints of transcribed scores for laughter.
Animation: Eduardo Vazquez