Pulchri Studio 2011

"Un-plugged, fiction of the mind"

Moisse Fantascope, Fantasmagoria (early visual media Archeology)

MATERIAL:
Recycled wooden wine box, metal, mirror, energy saver light bulb, old lenses and real plug.

EXHIBITED AT:
"Colombian Artist in The Netherlands"
Pulchri Studio Den Haag.
Organized by the Colombian Embassy in The Netherlands.

NRC newspaper article about the exposition at Pulchri

In my latest's works I've being exploring the way to project objects of our daily life into the real place where they normally are disposed.
The realistic way in which the plug get projected on the spot where it supposed to be, makes the spectator believe that what he/she see it's the reality and not a fiction.
Just as "trompe l'oeil", the visual illusion in art, especially used to trick the eye into perceiving a painted detail as a three-dimensional object.
This work is intended to create such an illusion, deceiving the eye. But instead of projecting a flat surface, I am interested on projecting the reality as it is.
“Un-plugged, fiction of the mind” it’s an optical machine inspired on the Moisse Megascope or episcope.