The Indexed Series are visually related to the realm of Medicine, and the classifications of medical samples or chemical compounds arranged in rows of glass bottles, in shelves. The works are constructed by displaying a multiplicity of printed fragments inserted in glass bottles filled with water. These are arranged inside shelves and boxes, specifically designed for proper exhibition. These works are based on the study of the relationship between the concepts of fragment and totality. The original context of the selected images is “amputated” in order to leave the single parts as new “isolated wholes”, thus revealing unexpected visual and conceptual relationships between them through their serial disposition. Each of the resulting configurations constitute a congruent formal universe, which can be read both as a panoptic synthesis, as in the detail of each fragment (zoom out and zoom in).
Index of X, detail bottles.17 x 6 cm. each. 2012.
Artisticity Index is made up of a series of 100 hand prints, taken from different reproductions of works painted by famous artists in the history of Western painting. The selection criteria of the works is aimed to cover a historical period with a certain consistency and amplitude, from the Middle Ages to the present day. Each fragment has been inserted into a glass bottle filled with water, building an orderly sequence of samples, in the manner of an indexed catalog. The series of bottles is arranged on a four-level metal shelf, and is accompanied by a printed index in which the relative position of each fragment is indicated with the name and year of birth and death of the respective artist. The work seeks to put in value each fragment as a representative unit of a particular style and time, thus constituting a sum of specific “points of view”, formally linked by a strategy of amputation and serial scopic display that leaves them in a relationship of equivalence, independent of their specific original context.
