Amalia Pica
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1. Visual Elements: The artwork features a vibrant palette of red, blue, and gray tones. The composition consists of overlapping patterns, symbols, and text, creating a visually striking and dynamic arrangement. 2. Subject Matter: The artwork depicts various concepts and themes, including e-mail, payment, and currency-related symbols and words, suggesting a commentary on modern financial and digital systems. 3. Artistic Style and Technique: The artwork employs a collage-like technique, combining hand-drawn elements, printed text, and abstract patterns to create a visually complex and layered piece. 4. Context: The artwork's intention appears to be a critical examination of the interplay between technology, finance, and contemporary society, inviting the viewer to consider the impact and implications of these systems. ...
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Amalia Pica
B.1978, ArgentinianAmalia Pica’s practice, which includes sculpture, performance, installation, drawing and video, explores human communication, its failures and intimacy. Human modes of interaction, such as the desire to be understood and accepted, are central to her work. Pica uses found objects, like hair brushes, wine bottles and confetti, verbal and non-verbal linguistic tools, like texts and venn diagrams, out-dated means of communication, like shutter telegraphs and slide projectors. Her live performances are audience-driven, creating situations of encounters, awkward and real. Having been born during the 'Dirty War' in Argentina, Pica’s works further consider the issue of state control, history, representation and systems of bureaucracy. In her performances, she explores the ways civic participation can become a mode of resistance to political oppression across time and cultures. ...
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