Space is only noise if you can’t C is a cumulative project, a compilation of ideas that existed in other forms that had not yet been solidified.
Without visual or perceptible stimuli, space might seem silent or uneventful. The project aimed to be a thought-provoking way to consider how our perception influences our understanding of the environment. In a broader sense, it hints at the idea that what we perceive or experience defines our understanding and interpretation of the world around us.
It can be seen as an exploration of the idea of perception itself. How does the perception of space change when different senses are engaged or disengaged? It could delve into the visual representation of sound or the absence of sensory input.
The very artwork of the project initiated from the desktop of my laptop. A very “untidy” desktop, full of files , thus information, which due to its very large size capacity “withstanded” the extra files I adden as work and activity was generated, being backed on top of the other. The artwork is a mirrored screenshot of the condition of my then desktop (2017). The initial media was digital, then printed and transfered onto vari- ous surfaces via screen printing. The vastness but also the limitation of the chaos -the lack of order- of the digital space is visually represented, whether it is the cosmos, inner spaces (files and information), or the emptiness that can exist within relationships or environments or within the content that we continuously generate and consume.
Contrast silence and noise, emptiness and fullness, visibility and invisibility within the artwork are also implied. Seeing a graphic depiction of a file (the file icon) that within it contains countless and hidden infor- mation, covered under the icon of the file at first sight but surely backed with information and potentially visuals if accessible to be opened.
The project plays with the idea of space. On a first level, in the very theme and visual depiction of the artwork, space is considered in the context and in the universe of one’s screen, space of a file, the digital space and what it implies overall. A microspace within the 3d world we live in.
On a following level, that the artwork is printed, and the image (the map) of the desktop is allowed to be living in the wider space -when printed on a sculptural object (e.g. in this occasion on pieces of marble), the desktop now exists on a material that belongs to the natural space, and thus exists in the actual space having escaped the dimensions of the computer.
Another antithesis I was interested to emphasise on was through the word play of screen and materials.
The actual theme of the artwork, is a screenshot of my screen that was then screen-printed on a surface that then became the desktop screen. So there is a circular wordplay that threads from the beginning to the end output here as well, which I much enjoy when I mention.