Stage Fright
Sarah Tritz according to Fernanda Brenner
“In times when ten billion fingers are fumbling away, anxiously typing WhatsApp messages, taking selfies and tweeting their minds, the author’s obsession with the making of identity and personality, multiple viewpoints and the relativity of truth is very up-to-date. In other words: we understand less and less about the mechanics of the world as these powerful technologies assume more control over our everyday lives and our own psychology. Is there a way out? Lights to be turned on? I have a strange feeling that Sarah Tritz’s anti-utilitarian dysfunctional computers might hold the crack-code to something ominous and deadly earnest: the future.”
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Radiant Ignition
Martine Aballéa according to Chus Martínez
“Aballéa’s installations present themselves as a state of givenness towards which we need to make an effort to arrive. The work does not say: ‘see this’ but: ‘imagine this’ and: ‘depart from this to see the world.’ In order to do so, the artist creates a world that is a little bit antagonistic to the world around us and, as well, the worlds of art. There is a beautiful strangeness in the work that she creates through an unceasing succession of retinal stimuli that has been—till very recently—very uncommon in art. With the arrival of different digital technologies, we became familiar with certain levels of brightness, but Martine Aballéa was there much before.”
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Upcoming essays:
Anne Bourse according to Iheanyi Onwuegbucha
Jean-Claude Ruggirello according to Barbara Casavecchia
Jagna Ciuchta according to Marta Dziewańska
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