Tezos

Identifier: Xanthopsia 118

Creator

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Description

My work "Identifier," a subrealist and unconventional reinterpretation of Van Gogh's "Head of a Peasant," constitutes a polymorphic meditation on identity in the algorithmic age. Here is a summary: Poetics of Identity Metamorphosis - The Digital Palimpsest: My superposition of acrylic paint, digitized hand-drawn layers, and ethereal animation creates a visual stratigraphy. Each layer is a burial/resurrection: the organic materiality of Van Gogh's peasant (earth, sweat, rural anonymity) dissolves into digital immateriality, evoking the volatility of contemporary identity. The frame-by-frame animation suggests the echo of the fragmentation of the self under the scanner of social media. - Mystical Chromatism: Xanthopsia (yellow vision) is not just an optical filter, but an alchemical allegory. Van Gogh's yellow, always present in one way or another in his paintings—a solar and spiritual symbol—here becomes the digitized aura of sellable identity. My minimalist treatment of color evokes a spectral illumination, where the social profile (profile picture) transforms into a neo-mystical icon: a secular stained-glass window of self-idolatry. Semantics of Identification - Title "Identifier": This hybrid neologism designates both the classificatory algorithm (which reduces humans to data points) and the existential cry ("I identify myself!"). By revisiting Van Gogh's anonymous peasant—whose rugged face embodies pre-industrial humanity—I contrast two regimes of anonymity: - Yesterday: Social invisibility as a universal condition (the nameless peasant). - Today: The paradoxical anonymity of overexposure (the user drowned in metadata). - The Profile Photo as a Relic: My hand-cut tracing is a sacralizing gesture. It transforms the digital avatar into a modern funerary stele, where identity is reduced to a commodified silhouette. The manual clipping reminds us that behind the algorithm, there is a human hand—an echo of Van Gogh's craftsmanship and my reinterpretation, first physically and then digitally. Psychology of Subrealist Abstraction - Abstract Expressionism 2.0: My "subrealist" style fuses the existential angst of Abstract Expressionism into a figurative emanation that dialogues with the digital unconscious. Acrylic drips become data streams; ethereal forms in animation evoke the dissolution of the self in cyberspace. - Van Gogh Duality / Algorithms: Van Gogh sought harmony in tensions (light/shadow, madness/genius). My work proposes to transpose this dialectic in a contemporary manner: - Physical/Digital Duality: The photographed canvas is the body, the animated layer is the data-soul. - Anonymity/Identification Duality: The farmer embodies the unlabeled being; the "Identifier" is the labeled being. The algorithm is the new Freudian "reality principle," imposing its binary logic on human complexity. Xanthopsia Mysticism - Yellow Vision as Contemporary Gnosis: In the mystical tradition, yellow is the color of revelation (haloes, mandalas). My Xanthopsia collection offers a paradoxical illumination: finding "positivity" (light) not despite the algorithmic darkness, but in its interstices. The ethereal animation becomes a meditative dance, inviting us to transcend identity reduction through contemplation. - Van Gogh as a Spiritual Avatar: By revisiting his work, I attempt to make Van Gogh a bridge between two worlds. His peasant—once anonymous—becomes an archetype of humility in the face of the vanity of digital identities. The rough texture made from layers of my acrylic paint recalls his thick paste, resistant to digital smoothing. Conclusion: An Archaeology of the Future "Identifier" is a philosophical palimpsest where: - Mixed Media symbolizes the hybridization of identity (flesh/data). - Subrealist Abstraction embodies the schizm between the authentic self and the algorithmic persona. - Xanthopsia offers a mystique of resistance: in the face of the reduction of identity to an identifier, art restores the sacred complexity of being. My work does not "reinterpret" Van Gogh: it actualizes him as a prophet of the digital condition. Where he painted the struggle between light and inner darkness, I paint the struggle between lived identity and sold identity. The peasant of 1884 and the user of 2024 are united by the same quest: to exist beyond the label. In this, my homage is less a reinvention than a resurrection—an artistic transubstantiation where the canvas becomes a new digital material. Tribute to Van Gogh painting: « Head of a peasant » see original at : Kröller-Müller Museum 2160 x 3840 px / 4k MP4 / 106 Mo / 8 fps / 1/1 édition