Don’t Judge, Filter, Shoot, first shown in Mircea Cantor’s solo show at the Centre Pompidou, consists of a monumental rosette composed out of different sized wooden sieves, which are violently penetrated by bullets made from gold and
concrete.
This major piece merges two main subjects in Mircea Cantor’s work, tradition and modernity. This basic object so related to civilization is now rendered to a relic, only seen through the lenses of modernity/war. The bullets made out of gold glorify the otherwise banal imagery of war that surrounds us, where the concrete bullets emphasize a tension of material poor and rich, past and present.
Continuing this line of thought Mircea Cantor has created a site-specific installation, composed out of purifying plants who are gently covered, smuggled by current news from recent New York Times articles.
