Return of the Junker. JM2000, a duo exhibition by Josep Maynou and Jordi Mitjà, curated by Sira Pizà, was on at Barcelona’s Bombon Projects, running October 10 to December 6.
Featuring playfully menacing installation and sculptures, the works are fabricated from old car components, repurposed in the family metal shop of one of the artists. Bringing to mind dystopian movies such as Mad Max and The Cars That Ate Paris, the exhibition evokes the automobile as a 20th century icon in a technological future that’s gone to disarray. As Sira Pizà’s text on the show states: “We make technology in our likeness and we think of it as part of ourselves: it’s already replacing us, we’ve already become one.”**
