Observado

The work plays with the idea of ​​the gaze. It is a half-hypnotic experience, which also seeks to generate discomfort: what seems chaotic ends up having rhythm, what begins as something less ends up being more, like a choreography of seeing and being seen. I seek to show how we look at ourselves today, between screens, data and constant stimuli.

Technical, aesthetic and conceptual development

After reading the texts and observing works and ideas, what would happen if the work observed us, questioned us.

In my work I do not construct large images or narrative scenes, but rather tiny gestures: the appearance of an eye, its position in the background, its lifespan, its disappearance. Each eye is, in Airean terms, that “small missing” or “irreproducible point” that opens a range of possible stories: who is looking?, at whom?, for how long?, what is left out of the field? The algorithmic system that generates, maintains and eliminates glances works as a programmed version of what Aira calls “extended reproduction”: it is not so much whether the work exists as a stable object, but rather the play between what is done and what is not done, between what is seen and what can only be narrated or imagined.

Each look has its own birth and end, and the code controls that with random functions and internal clocks. Each time it is performed, the composition changes, as if it had a life of its own. Visually, the piece is simple: dark background. This simplicity is not coincidental, the focus is intended to be on the act of looking. It is a work about attention in the digital present, where everything lasts a short time and is repeated differently each time. Conceptually, it connects with ideas from Nam June Paik, Sophie Calle, Dan Graham and Bill Viola, artists who have used the gaze as a central device in their works.

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) FRICKE, Christiane. (1999). “Nuevos Medios”. En “AAVV. Arte de siglo XX. Vol. II. München: Taschen. pp.576-590. ARNS, Inke. (2005). “El código como acto de habla performativo”. En Revista Artnodes, Julio de 2005, ISSN 1695-5951

Artistas

Nam June Paik Sophie Calle Dan Graham Bill Viola