These are remains of erasures, scraps of past memories, which reconfigure images and plastic mediations of projects. Time is fragmented, and space is compressed into graphic randomness. It is an archive, true, but an archive that is destroyed in the extinction of art to propose something new – a lace-like idea, a concept that drags on, a transposition or transfer that remains as a precarious, evanescent condition.
At the invitation of Umbigo, Carlos Mensil focuses on the transformative and relational potential of Raum's digital creation space. The artist works on his archive of projects, making iteration, interaction and virtual systematization tools for experimenting with the digital condition. His mechanical and systematizing practice, with deep technical knowledge about the behaviour of materials and the mysterious logic of time, finds echoes here by focusing the user's power on the construction, deconstruction and destruction of the images and information inscribed on them.
In this context, Network_erase-to-relate is an exercise in both destruction and excavation, in which layers of knowledge acquire an ever-transient recording: photographs of notes, scans of sketches and documentary drawings, records of works and exhibitions, etc. The accidental, the careless, the unexpected, the illusion, the memory and the flows that feed everyday life, themes profusely debated in his installations, have a new presence here in an experience radically different from the plasticity generally associated with his work.
José Pardal Pina - Umbigo