Artistshots is a series of short videos by MO_Space. It aims to share a short insight into the artistic process of each artist, as well as some views of what goes on behind the scenes prior to the opening of the exhibition. These videos will range from artist interviews, studio visits, and conversations with fellow artists.

Four Red Works / Arrival and Departure: The Melancholy Of

Roberto Chabet

MO_Space

20 March – 02 May 2021

“In 1989, Roberto Chabet’s 'Cargo and Decoy' marked the end of his first trilogy of works using plywood as the main material and metaphor for the vagrancies of postmodern art and life. Composed of four separate works, the exhibition recalled the cargo cults in the South Pacific as an analogy for the illusions of space in painting. Responding to the challenge of the early modernist painters, Chabet sought to cut through illusion by assembling actual objects in real space, presenting themselves not as substitutes for reality, but as reality themselves. ”

–RB