Artist: Natalia Revilla
תַאֲרִיך: 2016
מוּזֵיאוֹן: Inter-American Development Bank (Washington, United States)
טֶכנִיקָה: Paper
For Peruvian artist Natalia Revilla, a material as simple as a white sheet of paper allows her to develop a poetics of vacuity, absence, and loss. Each of her series is based on a different technique, such as embossing, cutting, and burning. The basic principle of the visual arts that divides the pictorial field between negative and positive space serves as a metaphor to re-examine the social impact of violence within the collective and personal memory. The incisions and burns that Revilla makes on the paper, as interventions on her drawings, intercept the figurative and graphic language of documentary images to convey the loss and violence that they, as images, naturally conceal. From an initial period when the artist experimented with various techniques and effects that produce the fissure, in her series Twenty Words, embossing emerged as a new treatment of the paper that revealed its sculptural dimension. In these works, the artist reflects on how the flat surface of a white sheet of paper is implicated in linear and mathematical forms of representation. Simultaneously a fragile and malleable material, the embossing technique used in her work turns paper into a zone of reconciliation between presence and absence. The human touch lost in the documentary record also speaks to the environmental damage caused by indiscriminate logging, an action closely linked to the reproduction of images.
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