THE WEIGHT was a performative sculpture and functional monument activated by a four channel video installation of Spiro's parents and the center of Cyclorama. The installation navigated between Spiro's home, an Olympic Weightlifting gym and Cyclorama's gallery space.
While weight is often thought of as a burden, especially when carried on ones shoulders, for Spiro, weight means celebrating her parents legacy and immigration struggles.
"This is a conviction of Beethoven's music: [w]e believe that the greatness of man stems from the fact that he bears his fate as Atlas bore the heavens on his shoulders. Beethoven's hero is a lifter of metaphysical weights.” - Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Boston Center for the Arts: Cyclorama, Boston, MA
Installation:
THE WEIGHT, 2015
Installation in 16' x 16' space
1 main sculpture 7.9' wide x 3.3 height' x 2.9' depth and .98” in diameter
Materials: Wooden bowling alley platforms, barbell, chairs, weightlifting jerk boxes, embroidered leather weightlifting belt (made by Spiro's mother), embroidered cushions (made by Spiro's mother), dimensions variable.
Moving Image:
Trousseau, 2015
Two channel video with sound, 4:05 minutes
Burn the Bachelorette's Red Scarf, 2014 - 2015
Two channel video with sound, 4:05 minutes