CORPOREAL ABSTRACTIONS - MICROPORTRAIT

Corporeal abstractions (Microportrait)
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Vacuum formed plexi-glass, light projection Series (6): Tooth, Eyelash, Skin, Hair, Tooth v.2, Nail
Dim: 80 x 90 cm (each)

This series of relief light-sensitive works was conceived on the basis of computer-modified microscopic images of particles of the artist’s body by inverse fast Fourier digital transformation (IFFT), with the help of computer programmes used in microscopy. This is why the fragments of micro structures, despite the seeming naturalism indicated by the titles of particular works, are not the magnification of ‘the natural’, but algorithmically coded images, an artificial product of the digital software. Transparent or reflecting surfaces are dynamized by light effects and the fluctuating, subjective perception of the observer in time and space.
– Uršula Berlot, 2020

‘The relief transparent pictures were created on the basis of microscopic images processed with special software used in microscopy to analyse the structure of materials and crystals. The software copies the recorded images into an inverted, reciprocal space and generates new images using certain filters. The result is a double metamorphosis since the filters reduce the amount of data captured in the original image, from which the software then generates a new image. The new image is similar to the original, but it is created artificially, digitally. This opens an immensely broad semantic field of multi-layered references, be they references to the duality of mimesis and technologically generated reality or to the question of reality in this day and age, when the boundary between image/simulation and original is becoming increasingly blurred.' - Tomislav Vignjevi?, Bodyscope, 2020 (excerpt)