Pharrell, Pharrell

Hildebrandt’s cassette shelves generally reflect the artist’s insatiable interest in music and cinema. An evolution of his paper works and connected to his granite pieces, both which feature iconic figures of cinema, these works are inspired by the shelves commonly used to store cassettes during the golden age of analog media. They recreate paintings or portraits that have been cut and then glued onto the inlays contained in the cases. A unique work created for Just Phriends, this work presents a portrait of Pharrell Williams altered with cuts based upon the pattern of a torn poster. By revealing a few cassette inlays, the cut-outs give partial access to the music archive metaphorically contained in the shelf.