This contemporary artwork features a minimalist composition, with a stark white background and text-based elements in contrasting red and gray tones. The repeated "Paid paid paid paid" text, alongside rows of checkmarks, creates a rhythmic and almost hypnotic visual pattern. The style and technique suggest a conceptual exploration of themes related to consumerism, payment, and the repetitive nature of contemporary economic systems. The artwork's intention may be to prompt viewers to reflect on the pervasiveness of financial transactions and monetary transactions in modern life. ...
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.
