My work is based on the research and studies I pursued on the oeuvre of László Moholy-Nagy, with reflection to the keywords of his photograms and creative principles. My series created with the personal interpretation of these concepts exploits the technical possibilities of our age; it recalls the calligraphic gestures of abstract expressionism, but most importantly builds upon the conceptual framework of the post digital period.
The tool I chose to create my pictures is the scanner; I used several ones of different quality and resolution. Since the image sensor gradually records the image placed on the glass, it enables us to hack the output by moving the surface the scanner is to read, thus creating digital glitches. The image is created by the scanner with a reflection process, with illumination from below the glass pane with the use of reflected light. Employing this opportunity I chose common, everyday materials, shreds of trash to draw with, which are transparent and sparkling, which refract light in different ways such as cellophane, aluminium foil, plastic, perspex, water, glass and CD discs. I moved them on the glass and in the space as well, hence the forms were often created by their overlapping images.
The emergence of glitch in visual art is more than a simple trend, it is rather a perfect symbol of the thinking characteristic of the post digital era, our relationship to the cyberspace that envelope us. The permanent digitisation of our lives has led to a Rousseauian “back to nature”, or rather “back to the natural” attitude: distancing ourselves from perfection, moving towards the discovery of the beauty of the failure and its intentional creation, that is, the humanisation of the digital. Yet, being intentionally made the failure that is born this way is not real, it is no more than the simulation of conscious gestures pretending to be failures. According to Baudrillard's Simulacra theory 'Simulacra are copies that depict things that either had no reality to begin with, or that no longer have an original', which applies to our whole world, and leads to the faltering of the post modern human being's sense of reality. Thus, when every symptom becomes producible, the simulacra around us destroy reality.
