A Precarious Angle, 2021
Noé Piña’s work has been inspired by the concept of balance, of counterpoise "a factor, force, or influence that balances or neutralizes another." He works with found materials used in construction, using terracotta bricks, nails, and wood fragments to create sculptures and installations that address the complexities in maintaining balance, from personal, social to economic. Noé explores the fragility, the precariousness in things, nature, and systems and how it is through the forces of pressure and stress that these remain in or produce balance. Noé's installations display an environment that is at once an environment of graceful balance and crude counterbalance thus a sense of tension. The result is an anticipation of a disaster the expectancy of a cataclysmic fall. Through his video projections, he reveals the catastrophic result of the pieces when they collapse as Noé removes their source of balance, stress, and weight - that typically being the bricks.
