This abstract artwork features a dynamic interplay of overlapping blue text and shapes, creating a complex, layered composition. The predominant visual elements are the dense patterns of text and rectangular forms, which convey a sense of fragmentation and information overload. The subject matter appears to be a critique of bureaucracy and administrative processes, as suggested by the presence of numerous stamps, stamps, and numerical codes. The artist's style is characterized by a bold, experimental approach to visual communication, using the formal qualities of text and shapes to evoke the disorienting experience of navigating complex institutional systems. This work reflects the artist's intention to highlight the challenges and frustrations of modern bureaucracy. ...
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.
