Latin America

Elena Damiani

Fading Fields 7

2014

Fading Fields 7, 2014

In Fading Fields 7 the unstable transparency of the prints on silk chiffon is relative to the light and the viewer’s position, varying continually as one moves around them. As apparitions or ghosts, the images portrayed appear or vanish in the space as fade-out recollections of a distant landscape. Hence, these impressions appear as oscillatory surfaces that fluctuate between presence and absence and contingent objects that shift as a result of what surrounds them.

The viewer struggles to grasp at once the totality of the image, which keeps fusing with the space in the background. As a result, in Elena Damiani´s works function as constant reminders that it is only through the eyes of the present that we can catch a glimpse of the past and that both realms -virtual and physical- merge constantly in the act of remembrance.

Transforming found materials into collages, sculptures, videos, and installations, Elena Damiani critically addresses our understanding of the present by harnessing the potential of images from the past. She is interested in revising subjects such as geology, archaeology, and cartography. By reworking materials such as books, photographs, video footage, and public records, Damiani stages fictions where multiple topographies and times unfold, hovering between an indeterminate past and present. She aims to explore the ways in which specific materials can be presented as incomplete and ambiguous when extracted from their contexts, then recomposed into artworks that emphasize the mutability of cultural objects and information, thereby forming new memory paths and connections.

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Elena Damiani Fading Fields 7

Elena Damiani

Fading Fields 7