Angie Saiz

NADIE VE EN HD

2014

The work consists of a series of photographs and a set of audiovisual pieces created from VHS records and contents. It problematizes the aesthetic nostalgia of what seems to have really been, through the digital recreating the excitement of the analog; and the fascination of the new as something that brings us closer to what is obviously real.

9 audiovisual pieces | Digital VHS video in color [25′,15″]

 

Information asymmetry not only shapes knowledge or what can be known, but also establishes the idea that someone see (or can see) more or better than others. Reality hasn’t changed, it’s just that what surrounds us hasn’t changed enough and remains the same. What changes is the format of recording and reproducing what we see, thus altering our perception of reality. We ascribe characteristics to what we see, which are not necessarily real, but which create an imaginary emotionally constructed as such. This work sets a space of nostalgia and revision through images of everyday, domestic, and autobiographical records in an era of accelerating technological change.

Series of 6 photographic compositions taken, intervened, and digitized from VHS video frames from the artist’s family archive.

 

The work was exhibited in the two-person show Holiday with artist Carlos Silva in 2014 at the Micronekoe independent venue [Santiago, Chile] and at Galería Marta Traba [Sao Paulo, Brazil].