Through performance, film, poetry, objects, and imagery, David Correa’s multi-faceted art practice paints surreal and elaborate narratives exploring and satirizing modern man’s existential relationship to the tool and the self.Contextualized through collective aspects of Latin American situationism, Correa further informs these narratives by referencing political theory, mythology, art history, and philosophy, creating networks of ideologies which depict the Latin laborer as an absurdist figure. Within these systems of thought, Correa grounds the internal combustion engine as a focal point within his work. The industrial revolution and contemporary man’s dependency on the motor has fueled an imbalance present throughout history, blurring the lines between operator and tool, and consequentially, task and purpose. While actively exploring these relationships through his time-based work, Correa’s presentation of ephemera as sculpture furthers this investigation by humanizing the tool. Death and non-functionality become interchangeable. Accordingly, the tools, equipment, and garments utilized in his performances are presented as relics. Glass, steel, aluminum, and plastics become framing tools to encase and memorialize the soiled garment or the wear of a machine.
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EXHIBITIONS
2024/2025 Friends of Laundromat, Group Exhibition curated by Sophia Ballesteros & Ross Karlan
2024- August 29th - Weeping a Petroleum Lubricant (Miami, FL)
2024 - Beasts in the Rain Post hit-and-run, curated by Rui Jiang (New York )
2024 - Video Flux: Performance in Video Art Group Exhibition (Miami, FL)
2024 - The Abundance, curated by Rui Jiang (Baltimore, MD)
2023 - The Machining of the Fool performance presented by Negrón Pizarro for Untitled Art Fair (Miami Beach, FL)
2023 - The Blueprint Group Exhibition, curated by Robert Chambers (Miami, FL)
2022 - Centennial: On the Topic of Now Group Exhibition at Current Space (Baltimore, MD)
2019 - La Campaña at the YALE Club Social Venue, curated by Justin Long (Miami, FL)
2019 - G00 Group Exhibition (Baltimore, MD)
2019 - Uranium Glass House Part I. Group Exhibition (Baltimore, MD)
2018 - Lo Mejor de la Calle Show 8 Borscht Corporation Opening (Miami, FL)
2018 - Authenticity Annual Benefit Fashion Show Group Exhibition (Baltimore, MD)
2018 - $wagfuture 2812 at the YALE Club Social Venue, curated by Justin Long (Miami, FL)
2017 - Untitled Group Exhibition at Soo’s Kimchee House (Baltimore, MD)
2017 - Imagination Land Group Exhibition, curated by Derrick Adams (Miami, FL)
2017 - $wagfuture 2054 at the YALE Club Social Venue, curated by Justin Long (Miami, FL)
2017 - YoungArts Regional Exhibition Group Exhibition (Miami, FL)
2017 - YoungArts Finalist Exhibition Group Exhibition (Miami, FL)
2016 - Immaterial Group Exhibition at New World Gallery (Miami, FL)
EDUCATION
2017 - 2021 - Bachelor’s Degree at the Maryland Institute College of Art (Baltimore, MD)
2019 - Fashion Design at the Paris College of Art (Paris, France)
Weeping A Petroleum Lubricant - Framed Still, 2024
The Machining of the Fool- Framed Still, 2024