screen burns
On Friday June 26th join us at Some Other Space at 18.00 for the opening of the exhibition "screen burns" by Claudio Tola.
The term screen burn, or burn-in, defines the permanent discoloration, brightness inconsistency or faint ghosting of still images on a digital display caused by uneven pixel degradation over time.
The effect is most commonly associated with static content, whose prolonged display causes certain pixels to age faster than others. It describes a condition in which images persist as residual traces within the very structure of the display itself.
Claudio’s work is concerned with screens and images as surfaces that are neither flat nor neutral, but layered and holding tensions. Lingering on thresholds, edges and moments of failure, he is interested in what happens on, within, behind and before them - images and screens - understood as theoretical constructs, technological objects and embodied experiences that mediate our relationship to the world. Far from a simple technical interest, his work is driven by multiple concerns - personal, political, formal - addressing questions of gaze, representation and visibility through a speculative and poetic tone.
In screen burns he presents new and old works that revolve around the materiality of images and screens, articulating a tension between seeing and not seeing, visibility and its failure, content and form, digital and analog. The exhibition unfolds through the space as a choreography of different forms of brightness and temporalities: flashes, flickers and fades; long pannings, light bursts; slowed-down slideshows, endless loops.
Program
- 18:00 - 21:00
- Exhibition opening
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June 26th - Friday
June 27th - July 5th
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Suburban melancholic, digital nihilist, full-time flâneur.
Claudio Tola (b. 1997, Torino, IT) lives and works in Rotterdam.
In his work, he combines a speculative observation of reality—physical and digital, public and personal—with a hunting-and-gathering of found visual materials, and a studio practice in which meaning is made through formal transformations of those materials: gestures of appropriation, un-making, translation and re-staging. He makes images—moving and still, digital and analog—through a sculptural lens; he works in/by/with fragments, loops, and layers; he endlessly edits.
Reflecting on notions of image, screen, and gaze, his work addresses the tensions and technologies inherent to the production and experience of images in the contemporary, questioning the relations and expectations they produce, and drawing attention to the interfaces that mediate their appearance.
The outcomes are installations that are carefully choreographed in space as minimal, multi-faceted montages whose form—at all scales—is essential to their content.
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