Shawn Maximo
“I wanted to pivot this piece to think about FIRE (finance, insurance, real estate). I wanted to look more at some of the underlying support structures that enable this type of greed and debt mongering. I wanted to talk more about debt in general, and credit, and the environments where you can physically experience interactions between the two, or the allure of one and the pressure of the other. . . . ”
Shawn Maximo (b. 1975, Toronto, Canada) holds a B.ASc in Civil Engineering from the University of British Columbia and a M.Arch and M.Eng. from Princeton University. Maximo’s works have been exhibited internationally in venues such as ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany; Kunsthalle Wien Museumsquartier, Wien, Austria; Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany; Berlin Biennale, Berlin, Germany; Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France; MoMA PS1, Queens, USA; and Perez Art Museum Miami, USA. He currently lives and works in Jamaica, New York.
Image in menu: Shawn Maximo, composite image of video stills, Pyre, 2020. Installation of twelve-channel video on LED panels and Eames chairs, dimensions variable. With sound by Justin Simon. Courtesy Roehrs & Boetsch Gallery, Zürich.
Shawn Maximo
“I wanted to pivot this piece to think about FIRE (finance, insurance, real estate). I wanted to look more at some of the underlying support structures that enable this type of greed and debt mongering. I wanted to talk more about debt in general, and credit, and the environments where you can physically experience interactions between the two, or the allure of one and the pressure of the other. . . . ”
Shawn Maximo (b. 1975, Toronto, Canada) holds a B.ASc in Civil Engineering from the University of British Columbia and a M.Arch and M.Eng. from Princeton University. Maximo’s works have been exhibited internationally in venues such as ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany; Kunsthalle Wien Museumsquartier, Wien, Austria; Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany; Berlin Biennale, Berlin, Germany; Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France; MoMA PS1, Queens, USA; and Perez Art Museum Miami, USA. He currently lives and works in Jamaica, New York.
Image in menu: Shawn Maximo, composite image of video stills, Pyre, 2020. Installation of twelve-channel video on LED panels and Eames chairs, dimensions variable. With sound by Justin Simon. Courtesy Roehrs & Boetsch Gallery, Zürich.