This abstract artwork features a visually striking composition of overlapping patterns and text inspired by administrative forms and customs documentation. The color palette is primarily blue and red, with intersecting lines, stamps, and handwritten annotations that create a sense of bureaucratic chaos and administrative complexity. The style evokes the aesthetics of collage and deconstruction, highlighting the fragmented and multilayered nature of modern bureaucratic systems. The artist's intention seems to be a commentary on the disorienting and overwhelming experience of navigating institutional processes and procedures in contemporary society. ...
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.
