"Wall Ride" (2020) by QUIT.
Wall Ride challenges the viewer in defining of what constitutes as a piece of art beyond the gallery walls. A mundane old car door has been given a new life with scrapes and dents done by actions of a skateboarder doing a wall ride on it over and over again. The process is akin to a sculptor transforming a piece of clay into an art object, a process that requires thought, skill and discipline.
Traditionally, wall rides are tricks that are done on walls or on a flat surface. Imitating a surfer riding waves, wall rides pays tribute to skateboarding's roots but in this particular case it also projects the skateboarder's perspective, or some may dub it as "skate vision". Skateboarders see architecture and everyday objects differently compared to the average pedestrian, taking them as skating obstacles, imagining what tricks could be performed at a certain spot. Doing a wall ride on a car door not only requires skate vision, but a certain level of skill from the skateboarder to perform such a trick with persistence.
As skateboarding is also a form of expression much like art, the car door has been transformed into a piece of canvas, so to speak; and the skateboard is a paint brush, making the skateboarder an artist in his own right. This painstaking, repetitive process is documented in a video accompanying the artwork as a testament of boldness, dedication and defying the conventional.
Taking cues from Marcel Duchamp's stand on the artistic value of ready-mades (mundane objects redefined and displayed as works of art), Wall Ride blurs out the borders of Dadaism, video art and skateboarding absurdity - keeping true to the brand's identity.