Dan Perjovschi

PARA/SITE ART SPACE

by Leslie Ureña
in artforum.com


Among the topics that Perjovschi tackles are the city’s shopping obsession, urban density, and socioeconomic disparity. The outline of a high-heeled boot, in profile, symbolizing both luxury and oppression, appears first on the gallery’s window and again in a cartoon hanging within the gallery space, depicting a small group of people huddling between the heel and the sole of the boot. He encapsulates the city’s rapid construction rates and dense population in his outlines of highly populated vertiginous buildings. One section of the drawings, subtitled “Philippino Week End,” highlights economic disparity. On the left, we see domestic employees cooking and cleaning alone during the “week” and then, to the right, they gather in a public park during the “end.”