PROJECT DESCRIPTION
During the Belgrade art studio online residency, I decided to do 2 art projects under the theme “Artist on Standby”
The first one is called “Fragmento de errores” what is translated to: “Mistakes fragment”.
Before the lockdown I was working on my university photographic laboratory for the subject advanced color photo lab. The lab was the place I enjoyed the most, where my creativity flowed in an exciting way, so when they had to suspend the presential classes, the process I was carrying out, was interrupted…
The first thing you have to do when you want to print a photography in the lab, is to make a test strip. This photographic paper strips are a guide to regulate the correct exposure of the print, and in the lab, they tended to end up in the trash can, because most of them are “mistakes”.
I decided to keep my test trips since early as my 3 previous lab classes with the argument that “I will find something useful to do with them”. And this project was the perfect opportunity to recollect all the material I had, and give it the opportunity to transform it. I found a similarity to this process to the way the people had to evolve, in many ways due to the pandemic.
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
The second project is called “Weaving a reconstruction” and was a collaborative digital collage.
I asked my fellow artist to send me photographs or pieces they did during the pandemic that represented:
• The struggle, the uncertainty and maybe their mental health issues.
• Something/someone that helped them to overcome all bad things during the lockdown. And
• How they reconstruct themselves and overcome through this tough times.
I realize, while doing the digital weaving with the images that were presented by the participants of this course, followed similar figures, colors, textures, tonal ranges and patterns. For the above, this collage came together in an unexpected way. Even though we live in different parts of the planet, our visualization of these 3 matters resembled from each other and that was something that amazed me.
