The light boxes are the result of a critical reflection about the relationship between analog and digital media in the field of contemporary art, and in a deeper sense, they refer to the increasingly prominent role of technology in our daily lives. In terms of their format, they present a certain ambivalence between being digital screens, or “fixed” wall pictures. At first glance the distinction is not clear, and this ambiguity is part of the proposal. In terms of materiality, they are constructed as LED retro-illuminated boxes, with variable dimensions, which through the use of analog optical films manage to generate the perception of dynamic movement of the images that make them up. Thus, the aesthetic experience becomes a bidirectional relationship between dynamism and fixity, between the transitory and the permanent. The images have been intentionally chosen in order to reinforce the same dichotomy, but from a poetic-symbolic perspective. They speak of human memories, of remembrance, which is something that is also permanently shifting between permanence and oblivion.
Light box with analog optical filter. 33 x 33 x 6 cm. 2019
Light box with analog optical filter. 33 x 33 x 6 cm. / 60 x 60 x 6 cm. 2019
Mutter und Sohn
Light box with analog optical filter. 33 x 33 x 6 cm. 2019
Light box with analog optical filter. 33 x 33 x 6 cm. 2019
Light box with analog optical filter. 33 x 33 x 6 cm. 2019
Light box with analog optical filter. 33 x 33 x 6 cm. 2019
Memory Type explores the tension between memory understood as “digitally encoded file” and memory as “lived experience”, through a formal approach based on the use of the aesthetics of computer screens from the early 1990s. Digital information strings overlap and merge with texts that refer to specific personal memories, in a set of fragments that create an undifferentiated whole. This overlapping seeks to be the testimony of the growing invasive nature of digital technologies in the field of human experience, but represented by analog techniques. All this creates a melancholic-nostalgic atmosphere, reinforced by the images chosen in the compositions: lonely characters, contemplating distant horizons or in meditative attitudes, are a way of codifying the state of existential solitude to which the “information society” paradoxically submits us.
Tänzerinnen I, II, III. Light box with analog optical filter. 33 x 33 x 6 cm. each. 2019