Artist Clement Valla explores the increasingly ambiguous divide between the boundaries of our physical and digital worlds.
Coopting the distorted images rendered from online digital navigation and mapping software, Google Maps, Valla subverts the two dimensional digital renderings and recreates them in three-dimensions. Their expression when installed in the art gallery, highlights the value of having access to these tools for navigation purposes but exposes the weakness of the tool in understanding the dimensionality of our physical world when it cannot differentiate bridges and overpasses as elevate elements.
In his most recent exhibition, Surface Proxy, at XPO Gallery, Valla replicates precious scuptures and digitally prints them on the surface of textiles to mimic the art objects. This rendering robs the object of its materiality and calls into question the value of these objects.
As our physical and digital realities become inextricably intertwined, will we be able to distinguish between these two worlds and is there reason to be concerned?
Saint Barbara, 2015, Sculpture, digital on linen, 3d printing — 28 cm × 18 cm × 90 cm
Wrapped Terracotta neck-amphora (storage jar), Attributed to the New York Nettos Painter, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Period: Proto-Attic, Date: second quarter of the 7th century B.C., Culture: Greek, AtticMedium: Terracotta, Dimensions: H. 42 ¾ in. (108.6 cm); diameter 22 in. (55.9 cm), Classification: Vases, Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1911, Accession Number: 11.210.12014, Inkjet on linen, foam H. 42 ¾ in. (108.6 cm); diameter 22 in. (55.9 cm), 2015
Saint Firmin holding his head, 2015
Tomb Effigy of a Lady, 2015
from the installation, The Universal Texture, 2012, Inkjet on Canvas, 44 inches x 92 inches each
from the installation, The Universal Texture, 2012, Inkjet on Canvas, 44 inches x 92 inches each
from the installation, The Universal Texture, 2012, Inkjet on Canvas, 44 inches x 92 inches each
from the series, Postcards from Google Earth, 2010, Website and Postcards
from the series, Postcards from Google Earth, 2010, Website and Postcards
from the series, Postcards from Google Earth, 2010, Website and Postcards, posted with permission of the artist.
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