Hécate

Hecate is an esoteric collage about witchcraft and the connection it has with women, how it transforms and connects them. I like to take the fact of being a woman as something magical and beautiful, connecting with other women for simply being women but it is also strong and overwhelming, I consider it an agglomeration of energies that collide, connect, mix but also repel each other, all in one place, all in being a woman. There is clearly a political message about this work, not only because I feel that each image and gif individually represents for me and others, but because among them are, for example, a fragment of the black swan, the name of the director Sofia Coppola and a Fleetwood Mac song with its singer Stevie Nicks, the messages they show, the experiences they had, the way they see the world of being a woman, it is connecting with yourself and persisting in a struggle.

Technical, aesthetic and conceptual development

The technical development of this work is not the most complicated, all the images and gifs are loaded and called and then arranged in the visual way that I liked the most, and then based on various filters, music and functions that make changes that allow the work to “come to life” and generate an arcane atmosphere that produces a hypnotic sensation in the viewer or generates some type of curiosity called from the mystery. The work seeks to be an interactive digital collage inspired by the figure of Hecate, esoteric aesthetics and the historical iconography of witches that is politically and symbolically linked to the history of women. The project is articulated with contemporary concepts about image, temporality and materiality in new media. The unstable and intangible phenomenon spoken of in the texts is found, as many artists begin to work based on ephemeral images, sketches, photographs, etc., which were related to their limitations. I wanted to try to reproduce all those ritual environments that experimental artists generated, ultimately creating a perception where the screen and the images it shows become a dynamic ritual. I would like to mention how one talks about a work by Odenbach and says “The artist reveals himself as a virtuoso choreographer in an audiovisual act […] His excellent sense of rhythm gives him control of perception and atmosphere […]”, one even talks about how “he indulges in certain antics that sow ambiguity and confusion.”

Literature

FRICKE, Christiane. (1999). “Nuevos Medios”.