Danny Yahev-BrownMaryland Institute College of Art
Yahev-Brown builds and photographs structures that are motivated by a distinct architectural logic, informed by scarcity of materials and time. He recycles domestic waste into models of temporary dwellings. The artist is intrigued by the possibilities of taking whatever is available, when it isn’t much, and transforming it into new forms that represent both aesthetic and use value. Yahev-Brown is attracted to the ephemerality that is common to consumer commodities and nomadic habitations. He wishes to quote Italo Calvino’s table of contents from Six Memos for the Next Millennium: A Place Like Home:
1 LightnessYahev-Brown is attracted to the impersonal intimacy of using someone else’s leftovers to create one’s own alternative shelter.
2 Quickness
3 Exactitude
4 Visibility
5 Multiplicity