Gaspilleur Studio

Formerly Located in C33 Gallery on 33 Ida B. Wells Drive
Gaspilleur Studio
a collaboration between iph and Victoria
A reaction to the wastefulness of physical materials, as well as human energy under capitalism, and the commodification of art in both fashion and fine art markets. Working to exploit these systems and critique from within, we are commodifying trash and ‘unusable’ materials, taking this excessive waste fueled by mass production and capitalism, and giving it value in the high art and fashion industries.

iph is an interdisciplinary artist with a focus on performance, incorporating movement throughout a multitude of medias. They currently live in Chicago, Illinois, and work in live performance, video, sculpture, installation, sound, printmaking, and writing. Their practice is as much critique and theory-based as it is self-expression, for everything exists all at the same time, and there is no separation.
Victoria is a multidisciplinary artist creating works around ideas of absurdity and abjection. Drawn to unconventional ways of creating, they reappropriate the ideas, imagery, and objects they find to uncover and create new meanings in the world around them.
Finding overlapping thoughts in fashion and counterculture, iph and Victoria explore through Gaspilleur Studio a new way of presenting existing themes explored in their work, bringing them together to push the boundaries of their own individual art practice and learn from each other's creative processes.