Bellatrix

A simulation pretending to be a sky limited by clouds that do not allow you to see the horizon, a digital limbo in which wherever you go you return to the same place; You remain archived in an exposed way, being observed eternally in a cloud like all data that you have provided without thinking, where a tangle of indelible actions remain floating visible but untouchable.

Technical, aesthetic and conceptual development

As we upload works of art to the internet, they inevitably become trapped in a cloud, reproducing infinitely in order to spread. Aira maintains that art no longer exists as a physical object, it exists because it circulates, is repeated and copied. Every work is archived in a cloud and reproduces countless copies on the Internet to spread, in this way you can find the same thing many times in different places even if you do not return to the same place where you saw it for the first time. So, a work of art is appreciated for the content that it shows, but when said work needs to be reproduced, this same action of reproduction proceeds to become another work of art in itself, this type of contemporary art does not have a single way of being appreciated, as Aira says “Reproduction itself becomes a work of art, or, more precisely, art without a work…”, ”…Art becomes a slightly fantastic game over time: it is the documentation of something that was, and at the same time the promise of something that will be.” In my work I present a space full of clouds where one is trapped, but not immobilized, allowing one to investigate the space or interact with it. On the other hand, an eye appears in a way that analyzes you as if you were the work being admired. In this way, so that my work presented characteristics of contemporary art, I invited the viewer to navigate aimlessly in a liminal space while being watched by an eye that seemed to know them, allowing my work to provoke more than one experience.

Literature

• AIRA, César. ([2013], 2016). “Sobre el arte contemporáneo” en Sobre el arte contemporáneo. Buenos Aires: Literatura Random House, pp. 11-56. (DAA: 1:02m)