Ernesto Oroza Workshop

Jenny is part of a series of projects that explore objects that have been taken out of the infrastructures and circulation systems for which they were designed, and have subsequently been employed in unexpected ways. The goal of these projects is to recognize and record the new logics that are applied to these objects, while, at the same time, attempting to push further the productive and re-purposing impulses that underscore them.
Jenny is a modular unit that exploits the stackability of milk crates in order to optimize the use of these objects and to produce functional architectural spaces. It has been used as screen room seating, a display structure, and a bookshelf.
Jenny comes in two sizes: 48” and 72”. Each sized is indexed by a different color.

A text on generic objects was published in E-FLUX JOURNAL 18.

Gean Moreno / Ernesto Oroza, Untitled (Tile System), 2011, Hand-made, hydraulic cement tiles. 12 x 12 inches each tile

Maqueta de Freddy. 12/16/09

Tiles, 2010. Customized vinyl adhesives tiles.
Vinyl tiles (12in by 12in) and graffiti.
Exhibited: Improvising Architecture IFAE MIA, Miami, U.S.
Declaracion: Este proyecto se auto declara temporal. Entiende que en el paisaje infinito de lo genérico los gestos vernáculos se disuelven, ruedan minúsculos hasta desaparecer, como los huesos de possum en la carretera interestatal I-95.

How Morocco Slate, Senegal Burnt Almond and Regal Wood becomes Jamaican Genetic or Orange Possum
More info and text about this project here.

Orange Possum (before Morocco Slate)

Orange Possum

Processing Orange Possum

Night Shift (in collaboration with Gean Moreno)
Sleepless Night at Bass Museum of Art and Collins Park 11/7/09. Curated by Jerome Sans.

Sleepless Night 2009 is right around the corner and this year, Bass Museum of Art will once again be the center of activity with “Night Shift,” a collection of installations and sculptures in Collins Park from 6pm – 2am. Set to live music from artist/DJ Jerome Sans

Set of table and benches. Plywood, 4'x8', hinges, cut.

FREDDY (in collaboration with Gean Moreno)
Freddy is a coupling system that allows the production of numerous different architectural spaces and object typologies. It exploits standard plywood sizes and the stackability of the plastic bucket. Various iterations of the system exist.

It has been used to produce:
- an outdoor pavilion ( commissioned by the Bass Museum in October 2009)
- an outdoor pavilion ( commissioned by the Miami Art Museum, 2010)
- an indoor pavilion, of which two versión exist, one using 8’ x 4’ planes and the other using 16” x 96” planes
- a series of tables
- a series of display structures
- a pop-up shop/display kiosk

Freddy is linked to a larger research Project involved with the understanding and theorizing of generic objects as the function at multiple levels, from the circuits of global trade to their repurposing in low-income neighborhoods. A text on generic objects was published in E-FLUX JOURNAL 18.
Using repeating, standard units allows Freddy a certain flexibility in producing spaces with incorporated seating arrangements, tables, stools, lamps, trash bins, and display
shelves.
Each of the patterns used in the planar modules is indexed by a different color.

Freddy. 2010

A publication by Gean Moreno and Ernesto Oroza.
Printed in Montevideo, Uruguay, Jan-2010 (spanish version);
Pinted in Florida. US, June-2010 (english version).
Textos Moiré © 2010
www.textosmoire.org

By Hardcore Art Contemporary Space (Albums)

Freddy (in collaboration with Gean Moreno)

Tiles, 2010. Customized vinyl adhesives tiles.
Vinyl tiles (12in by 12in) and graffiti.
Exhibited: Improvising Architecture IFAE MIA, Miami, U.S.
Declaracion: Este proyecto se auto declara temporal. Entiende que en el paisaje infinito de lo genérico los gestos vernáculos se disuelven, ruedan minúsculos hasta desaparecer, como los huesos de possum en la carretera interestatal I-95.

How Morocco Slate, Senegal Burnt Almond and Regal Wood becomes Jamaican Genetic or Orange Possum
More info and text about this project here.

Orange Possum (before Morocco Slate)

Orange Possum

Processing Orange Possum