Mar铆a Isabel Arango
Memory is a process, not a task to be completed; it operates through constant repetition and renewal. But erasure is also a process鈥� in which each moment pervades what is attempted at being forgotten.鈥�
Mar铆a Isabel Arango gathers information and modifies it by withdrawing or alienating its content and shifting communication to a non-narrative, metaphysical level. Her art is an attempt to rise to the challenges produced by troubled memory, while expressing a desire for change, reparation and transfiguration.
For her Broken Language series, Mar铆a Isabel Arango collects Colombian newspaper articles about violent incidents. These are subsequently shredded and soaked in water to make a pulp, which Arango uses to make the new pages of Broken Language. These thick sheets possess intricate surfaces and great visual density, however they show only glimpses of the deconstructed events.
Form and content undergo a radical alteration that results in a personalised yet simultaneously neutralised 鈥渞ecycled鈥� paper, full of history, rough and beautifully structured, yet elementary and blank.
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Memory is a process, not a task to be completed; it operates through constant repetition and renewal. But erasure is also a process鈥� in which each moment pervades what is attempted at being forgotten.鈥�
Mar铆a Isabel Arango gathers information and modifies it by withdrawing or alienating its content and shifting communication to a non-narrative, metaphysical level. Her art is an attempt to rise to the challenges produced by troubled memory, while expressing a desire for change, reparation and transfiguration.
For her Broken Language series, Mar铆a Isabel Arango collects Colombian newspaper articles about violent incidents. These are subsequently shredded and soaked in water to make a pulp, which Arango uses to make the new pages of Broken Language. These thick sheets possess intricate surfaces and great visual density, however they show only glimpses of the deconstructed events.
Form and content undergo a radical alteration that results in a personalised yet simultaneously neutralised 鈥渞ecycled鈥� paper, full of history, rough and beautifully structured, yet elementary and blank.
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