“Operating manually, Maria Appleton's process involves equal amounts of craft, intuition and physicality. For her participation in the group exhibition Garage Band, her production unfolds as a site-specific installation, like a stage for behavior. Here, the artist explores the idea of deconstruction of visual information, present in today's digital and physical world. A world where an excessive share of information invades a person’s private space, distorting and blurring people's perceptions of the same objects or ideas. Each of the projected fabrics, set up through a large web of weavings and each composed of collages and embroidery on fabric, simultaneously floating in the space and laying over its decading walls, merge together as a synesthesia of colors. Adding to the exalted composition are thoughtfully placed recovered posters from the streets of Paris and from the garage itself, molding reliefs and perspective, enhanced or distorted by the fluidity of the material. Forming this large network, which metaphorically recreates our world of data, one that can adversely affect our thinking and imagination process. This infinite web and limitless source of information, has the power to constitute this hybrid form between ready-made and crafts, especially as a place for interpreting reality.

Maria Appleton's site-specific installation is organized as a large web, a network, an architecture, a map, almost a city in a garage that will disappear but whose legacy will remain. The ephemeral memories of this space are celebrated through contrast, layering, and a sense of texture. A cave painting as the artist sees it. A representation of our unconscious, through the use of materials available in our current habitat.”

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