Photo by Marc Parroquin, 2024
Performative installations, The Guggenheim Museum, March 21, 2024. Medium: kitchen trashbags, fans, cellophane tape,
pico: [Spanish] beak, pinnacle; the scientific prefix for a small quantity
Arranged in three different configurations — a duet, a panel conversation, and an altar — the “picos” made from fans, kitchen trashbags, and tape seem to dance, squabble, and duel each other. Visitors are invited to interact in these humorously subversive rituals.
Oracle, 2024
In Oracle (above), the picos are arranged as a triad, invoking the priestesses whom ordinary people regularly consulted for important questions about life. Visitors were invited to consult the oracles one or two visitors at a time. Shoe removal was optional.
Created by Marisa Morán Jahn in partnership with the Guggenheim Academic Engagement Program, curatorial collaborator Amy Rosenblum Martín, and students from Parsons School of Design: Madison Jaet, Renee Neme, Riley Stark, Isabella Tedesco, James Terrazas, Ivor Zeng. Special Thanks: Em Flaire. Photos: (Lighter ones by Filip Wolak (c) Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. Darker photos by Marc Parroquin, 2024).
Duet, 2023-4
Facing each other, the fans appear to engage in an erotic duet, affectionate nuzzle, or awkward entanglement.
Panel, 2024
Arranged in a row blowing air towards the seated audience, the fans mock the conventions and spectacle of a panel discussion or artist’s talk.
