Jac Leirner - Adhesive 44
July 16 – October
10, 2004
New Work Gallery
 São Paulo-based artist Jac Leirner collects
common, ephemeral materials, like stickers, to create
vibrant abstractions. The formal rigor of her arrangements
gives these random, everyday found objects a sense
of ordered beauty. Leirner works in series, using materials
she has accumulated in the course of her daily life
as a consumer. Her work embraces such things as Brazilian
bank notes, cigarette packs, business cards, plastic
museum store shopping bags, and baggage stickers. Many
of these items relate to her travels, and reflect the
artist’s keen interest in packaging design and
its relationship to the art world.
For her exhibition at MAM, Leirner will make her forty-fourth
sticker-based work. She will apply stickers she has
collected for twenty years—signs and symbols
that commonly circulate in society—onto two rows
of window panes forty feet long. Leirner’s work
vividly demonstrates how stylized, mass-disseminated
systems of information can be made to seem extraordinary
and unique.
Jac Leirner-Adhesive 44
Organized by Miami Art Museum as part
of its New Work series of projects by contemporary
artists. Curated
by MAM Associate Curator
Cheryl Hartup.
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