Liotard

Composition created with footage recorded while copying digitally the painting "portrait of a lady in Turkish dress" by French painter Jean Etienne Liotard (1702-1789) . An exploration of the depiction of different tones, the creation of an image as an artifice and the nature of colour. To copy is to dialogue, to interview, to question. As a whole, this and other pieces in the same format are an exploration in the qualities of the image in the contemporary world, as animated statements, from gifs used in our daily mobile conversations to the big screens repeating an endless advertising in the luminous billboards of the street, an image of kinetic nature, movement and light, colour and light. An exploration of movement, of the digital creation. Metaphorically, the looping video is also a mental space. Nowadays this kind of image, -perpetual, cyclical - is more present than ever, thanks to the format that allows looped images to be sent via mobile applications (short looping videos also make the trick). But also because the devices that we use every day have that kind of sequence, the same animations of elements activated now and then in a rather static image, which is the interface itself. Within a static context, a lengthy evolution. Some of the art we make in the future will appear maybe from these elements. A moment, frozen. Such is the nature of the looping image, made of pure movement but trapped in the repetition, like a captured piece of time in the hands of the vision, a cage of light, shape and colour, and a fleeting meaning. A moment detained in time, frozen, for eternal consumption and contemplation, mental space for visual poetry.filetype: mp4/mkv author: gefercan year of creation: 2021 lenght: 40 seconds (aprox) size: 1280 x 1280 (aprox).