The artwork features a collage of various payment receipts, stamps, and handwritten text. The prominent colors are black, blue, and red, with the text and stamps creating an intricate, overlapping pattern. The subject matter appears to be a commentary on financial transactions, bureaucracy, and the documentation involved in everyday transactions. The style is reminiscent of pop art, utilizing found objects and everyday materials to create a visually striking and conceptually engaging piece. The artist's intention may be to explore themes of consumerism, payment systems, and the impact of administrative processes on daily life. ...
Amalia Picaās 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, Picaās 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.
