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.

By Hardcore Art Contemporary Space (Albums)

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.

GENERIC OBJECTS
Gean Moreno & Ernesto Oroza

“Gean Moreno and Ernesto Oroza articulate the world of generic objects sculpted by the brutally abstract flows of trade logistics, global exchange, and abject necessity. They key into a type of formal engagement that not only bypasses and supersedes modes of display, but also considers concrete object-production in terms of a kind of “meta-author” working at the intersection of small-scale need and worldwide processes of industrial standardization. “What is most interesting about the generic quality is that it clarifies objects as compressed and manipulable energy and information, free of the magical cloak of meaning and added value with which the fairy dust of sanctioned creativity wraps them.””