This minimalist artwork features a striking spiral composition created entirely from repeated text and symbols. The prominent central element is a coil-like form constructed from intricate black and white patterns, including handwritten words, numbers, and geometric shapes. The overall visual effect is both intricate and visually captivating, inviting the viewer to explore the layers of meaning within the piece. The artwork's style and technique suggest a conceptual approach, with the artist using typography and repetition to convey ideas about language, communication, and the nature of information. The piece likely explores themes of bureaucracy, data, and the human experience of navigating complex systems. ...
Amalia 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. ...
Proyectos Ultravioleta was founded in Guatemala City in 2009 as an independent artist-run space, and has since established itself as a leading voice in contemporary art in Latin America and beyond.
