Theatrum
Theatrum is based on a reserch about consumption and dissolution of the image in relation to reproduction systems.
The work is presented as an installation on the wall of one hundred and ten A4 photocopy each showing the same image in a different stadium of dissolution. These “steps” were obtained through a chain system of copies which, taking advantage of the mechanical gap of reproduction, it triggers a process of inexorable destruction photocopy after photocopy.
The portrait of the lady - a patchwork of facial features from different subjects - has been printed and photocopied, the copy just obtained has been photocopied in its turn, and so on. Each step represents a little loss of detail between the image and the other, this leads to the gradual blurring of the subject.
The title "Theatrum" refers to the theater as a scenic and dramatic scope of the tragedy, but also to its humanistic-renaissance meaning that is collection and archiving. The idea is to produce an imaginary suspended between private and universal dimension. A collection of things, lives and hypothetical events, a series of mnemonics and psychic events.
The work is presented as an installation on the wall of one hundred and ten A4 photocopy each showing the same image in a different stadium of dissolution. These “steps” were obtained through a chain system of copies which, taking advantage of the mechanical gap of reproduction, it triggers a process of inexorable destruction photocopy after photocopy.
The portrait of the lady - a patchwork of facial features from different subjects - has been printed and photocopied, the copy just obtained has been photocopied in its turn, and so on. Each step represents a little loss of detail between the image and the other, this leads to the gradual blurring of the subject.
The title "Theatrum" refers to the theater as a scenic and dramatic scope of the tragedy, but also to its humanistic-renaissance meaning that is collection and archiving. The idea is to produce an imaginary suspended between private and universal dimension. A collection of things, lives and hypothetical events, a series of mnemonics and psychic events.
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