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Constellation 1,2,3 

2019

3 Drawings on Paper

75 x 220 cm paper roll

ARTIFICIAL BLOOM; FLUID ARCHIVES,   

Curating by  Melih Aydemir      

Artists: Zeynep Beler, Luz Blanco, and Christiane Peschek.

06 December 2019 - 19 January 2020

SANATORIUM gallery, Istanbul

Artificial Bloom, Luz Blanco. Installation view, Sanatorium Gallery, Istanbul. Drawing exploring digital identity and memory.

As the line between our IRL (in-real-life) and virtual existence blurs, we find new ways to reconstruct ourselves and to expand our material limits. Our presence is continuously transformed on the ever-expanding Internet by means of collecting and storing our memories.

The exhibition seeks possibilities in this digital field, covering our experiences, memories, and identities beyond the linear narratives constructed by a certain gaze. It also considers the expansion of virtual networks as spaces where feminine and queer memory can find itself a nest, while reflecting on the cyber-feminist context of the documentation tools that have become extensions of ourselves.

Fluid Archives fragments those memories judged worthless to document, perhaps "unreal", that are transmitted and disseminated through body memory. Artificial Bloom is taken from the 2018 song "Faceshopping" by SOPHIE, standing as an acceptance of the reconstruction of one's body. Artificial Bloom refers to her transition process as flowering, bloom is also the name of a computer graphics effect that softens details by adding intense light to images.

Gallery view of Artificial Bloom; Fluid Archives at Sanatorium Gallery Istanbul, featuring works by Luz Blanco and contemporary artists.
Opening, Artificial Bloom, Sanatorium, Istanbul, 2019. Curator Melih Aydemir presenting Luz Blanco's Constellation drawings.
Opening night, Artificial Bloom, Sanatorium, Istanbul, 2019. Audience gathered around Luz Blanco's Constellation drawings.
Constellation 1, Luz Blanco, 2019. Hand-drawn digital palimpsest on carbon paper — pixel interference and body memory dissolving.
Constellation 2, Luz Blanco, 2019. Hand-drawn digital palimpsest on carbon paper — layered pixel bodies, fluid archives of identity.
SANATORIUM - Luz Blanco | French-Spanish Contemporary Artist, working between Paris & Istanbul
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