Present

:: RECONFIGURE TIME AND PLACE //

THE ELUSIVE SENSE OF THE PRESENT

... a hard one to be conceptualized. We say the present to refer to either an instant or a time, but it doesn’t matter as anyway it maintains its diffuse character.

curated by MYTH BUREAU COLLECTION

The present is a coordinate with no signs or symbols

THE ELUSIVE SENSE OF THE PRESENT

To move through the present today implies dexterity at maximum speed

—which is often unattainable— and in terms of language (whether verbal or aesthetic), the possibility for coherence fades out.

Coherence may be one of the most artificial impositions of modernity.

In any case, many things were built based on this premise, and living through its fading produces disruptions that are expressed quite frequently in art and narratives.

This selection of artworks reveals a standard search in the deformed paths that meaning is taking while mutating (and expressing its multiple behavior), offering us interesting proposals for representation.

The questions brought by this aesthetic's new problems are coupled with classic issues, such as an affiliation with artistic movements or framing. In the artworks’ figuration, there is a tendency towards the emergent response to cybernetic logic, often in relation to generative languages. While "machine vision" (scanners, satellite images, and the use of neural networks) gives rise to blurriness and glitches as part of this discourse.

Representation seems to focus on the broken categories that emerge when there is a gap in information. And this kind of error begins to rank as a model of plausibility.

However, this present (or epoch) that we live in seems to be especially ungraspable. Changes have always been constant, although, the exponential acceleration that is now happening produces vertigo and fascination.

Detrás de la tranquera by Faktor

Word-eating worms #215 by Yamil Burguener

nearest neighbor - genesis #72 by Morgan Higby-Flowers

Halcyon #103 by Chris McCully

九相圖/ Kusozu #3 by Chang Ming Yao

1888 - Glitch #22 by Fede Canovari

Mínimo by Daira

letters from another world #43 by Omar Lobato Neto

Haze #1 by Melissa Wiederrecht