As humans we iterate an exercise against time: we accumulate objects, we collect and record stories and encapsulate them into personal and collective archives. This exercise culminated with the 16th century idea of Kunstkammer, translating into English as “cabinets of curiosities”, a way of organizing facts and ideas as stories in a real or imagined space, providing a rationale for arranging objects into a theater of memory. Cultural objects made by the human brain and hands have in fact long been the main source in providing valuable insight in understanding a culture's values, beliefs, and societal norms in a specific time and space. With the advancement of technology we then began placing them into folders, digital files, resulting in enormous digital archives. Swivel Gallery is pleased to present “The Tool In My Hand Is The Idea In My Head”, a two-person exhibition featuring works by Edgar Orlaineta and NH DePass.
Hailing from different cultural and historical backgrounds, Edgar Orlaineta (b. 1972, Mexico City) and NH DePass (b. 1990, New Orleans) share between them a passion for crafting material chronicles that preserve stories and traditions, and simultaneously create new ones. Acting as both archaeologists and anthropologists of modern and contemporary culture, the two artists’ practices question today’s cultural and economic value of craftsmanship, recording and elaborating of both individual and collective data, formulated manually and likewise technologically.
Working primarily with traditional woodcraft, Edgar Orlaineta has long explored the relationship between art, craft, and the industrial, at the intersection between sculpture and design. His hybrid sculptures are informed by a mild irony, allowing him to combine references to Modernism, history, literature, and pop culture, consistently intertwining amidst playful characters and biomorphic forms. Similarly in DePass’ carpentry work, the inspiration from mid-century modern design encounters eccentric imagery from nostalgic Americana culture. This results in both a critical and ironic commentary of the resulting superficially idiosyncratic aesthetic of consumerism and appropriation which eradicated boundaries between high and low cultural products, a substitution for something that can appeal to the taste of mass society. 
Blending craftsmanship with the accelerated rhythm of today's production, Orlaineta and DePass bend contemporary culture by dialectically combining classical carpentry and books with cutting-edge digital production and AI techniques. The results are nostalgic cultural “tableaux” or contemporary “cabinets de curiosités” which disrupt historical and cultural timelines while capturing and defining the intricacies of the “new” world.
Referencing both traditional symbologies and techniques of his homeland, and incorporates philosophical books that have informed the journey of the modern man, Orlaineta’s work acts as an attempt to protect traditions of objects-making. In his postmodern mashups the artist denounces the contradictory ideologies of restless evolution, while claiming a necessary legacy of cultural objects, just as anthropology reveals objects of a larger historical and cultural context.
DePass' new body of work, conversely, employs Artificial Intelligence as a tool, resulting in hours of back and forth between himself and the technology, which he likens to a process of revealing rather than generating. The results are uncanny oil paintings which are themselves a commentary on the digital-age disconnect with nature, and our often sanitized experience of it. These paintings are then placed within an elaborate framing system, inspired by mid-century design and California craftsman architecture. DePass’ practice of utilizing new technologies while referencing craftsmanship and design of bygone eras, jumps and compounds time.

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