work
Are we still human?
| category | Installation |
| subject | Architecture, Abstract, Landscape, Political / Social |
| tags | stampa, installazione, parola |
| base | 30 cm |
| height | 30 cm |
| depth | 0 cm |
| year | 2020 |
The installation investigates on a conceptual level the contemporary problem of the dizzying decrease in the capacity for concentration and attention due in particular
to the advent of social media and the overexposure of the image to which we are exposed every day, According to a Microsoft study, the human attention span is 8
seconds, down from 12 seconds in 2000. Moreover, it takes about 50 milliseconds (that is 0.05seconds) for people to form an opinion about the appeal of a certain
image. Based on these data, I have developed 4 artworks that would give importance to artistic practice as a concept and not as a mere aesthetic image, the prints at
first sight, from a distance, seem only colored compositions while, when we get closer, we realize that in in reality the compositions are made through words, a word
each composition that reading them in succession form the phrase "are we still human?", a question with wide boundaries that investigates and tries to establish a
discussion and reasoning about the contemporary situation and its thousand paradoxes.
Through this work I have contrasted the superficiality of the viewer as in order to actually understand the work one needs to approach, read and understand the
message which in turn sets a question in the viewer's mind, the installation is not 4 abstract compositions but a mental process in steps
to the advent of social media and the overexposure of the image to which we are exposed every day, According to a Microsoft study, the human attention span is 8
seconds, down from 12 seconds in 2000. Moreover, it takes about 50 milliseconds (that is 0.05seconds) for people to form an opinion about the appeal of a certain
image. Based on these data, I have developed 4 artworks that would give importance to artistic practice as a concept and not as a mere aesthetic image, the prints at
first sight, from a distance, seem only colored compositions while, when we get closer, we realize that in in reality the compositions are made through words, a word
each composition that reading them in succession form the phrase "are we still human?", a question with wide boundaries that investigates and tries to establish a
discussion and reasoning about the contemporary situation and its thousand paradoxes.
Through this work I have contrasted the superficiality of the viewer as in order to actually understand the work one needs to approach, read and understand the
message which in turn sets a question in the viewer's mind, the installation is not 4 abstract compositions but a mental process in steps
