Jac Leirner Urgh 1, 2, 3, 2008
Plastic bag, polyester foam, Plexiglas
91,4 x 143,2 x 3 cm
Urgh 1, 2, 3 consists of three vintage shopping bags with camouflage pattern in a Plexiglas case. The camouflage pattern registers both as abstraction and as faintly militaristic trend, in this case the trademark of the eponymous Brazilian skater and apparel store, URGH. It is the handles—the double carrying loops that extend from the rectangular body of the bag—that allow us to identify the objects' function.