Description
'FLOU’ uses multiple AI tools to interpret and animate my personal archive of family photos and children’s drawings. The process involves several steps and each time the image gets more and more far from the originals’, getting to an almost completely abstract result. The title is taken from an expression in French, “c’est flou”, often spoken when someone can’t remember something well. It can be translated as unclear, vague, fuzzy, hazy, undefined or foggy. The piece counts with the music of the French Canadian sound artist and long-time collaborator Thierry Gauthier.
I have began working over a decade ago with homemade films and family albums. I am interested in the relationship between memory, image representation of memory, and family album. And the ways all these intertwine in a fictional construction that is in a continuous movement. It’s a porous process, affected also by the evolution in the technology to capture our precious moments : from long exposure photo portraits, passing by homemade films and videos, then mobile phones (selfies, social media) and now AI.
The FLOU series was first made for my solo show FRAGMENTS at the TSI/Harland Snodgrass Gallery (NY).
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Kika Nicolela is a Brazilian artist, filmmaker and independent curator based in Brussels. Having video and new technologies as tools, she proposes experiences that question the stories we make about the world and about ourselves. Graduated in Film Studies by the University of Sao Paulo, Nicolela has also completed a Master of Fine Arts at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHDK). Kika Nicolela has participated of hundreds of solo and group exhibitions at art institutions worldwide, including the KW Institute for Contemporary Art (DE), the Museum of Image and Sound (BR), National Museum of Contemporary Art (PT), Museum of Modern Art (AR), Parc de La Vilette (FR), Villa Empain - Boghossian Foundation (BE) and GL Strand (DK). Her videos have been screened and awarded in festivals of more than 30 countries, such as Bilbao International Film Festival, Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, Japan Media Arts Festival and Videoformes. As a curator, Kika Nicolela has developed programs for several festivals and museums, such as the National Gallery (IS), Loop Barcelona (ES), Festival Miden (GR), Transcultures (BE), Ibrida Festival (IT), Wikitopia (HK) and SESC (BR). She is represented by the Galerie Charlot (Paris/Tel Aviv) and Area35 (Milan). Since January 2022 Nicolela has been creating, curating and collecting NFTs. She has recently been appointed curator for Objkt and Objkt.one, two of the most important art platforms on the Tezos blockchain.