Adriana Castro's paintings and installations explore the world of information overwhelm and its cognitive implications. Here's a statement from the artist written for a recent project called "Diary of Images." Memory The Project "Diary of Images" is an extensive repertoire of recycled original images from diverse sources of information like magazines, books or impressions of “thumbnails” (indices of images) of internet search engines, as well as photographs, drawings or paintings on paper, piled up during the last years in my study. The sea of images in this linear project constructs sequences without a pre-established sense or conducting wire. Trimmed to a size of 3 x 3 centimeters, they are sufficiently small so that from a distance they are appreciated altogether like a totality and as the spectator approaches the work he or she can discover the details therein. These incoherent rows of images represent the difficulties that all we must confront, sailing through a world where information has become a tool of power and at the same time of liberation, but only if we have the capacity to filter it through a barrier of images and text without sense. “Information overload” is already a recognized problem, nevertheless, we are barely beginning to know its negative effects and to investigate how we can extract the maximum benefit of the internet and information media in general. Tired of this uncontrollable tide of images, “images of images” of one imagined world vision, I try to create, in this project, a shock of visual information, with the objective of disabling the spectator who constructs a message that is coming off of these images as independent units or in their organization--and who has to interpret from an arbitrary disposition like a totality wherein are perceived textures and patterns that hundreds of similar and different images seem to form when they are put together. Shown: Diary of Images. 2003. Acrylic on canvas. $1500. One meter square. |
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