Anthology of Spread Fragments
(Giselle Beiguelman retrospective )

by Lucas Bambozzi, curator

We are talking here about the possibilities of a subtle art, attached to systems, devices and telematic networks. It is an ‘almost invisible’ art, but widely theorized, discussed in lists of expert discussions and international symposiums. Many do not see it neither as a system nor art. Few artists face it consistently and with determination. The frequent question is: ‘how do widely used communication systems – apparently banal and totally spread out in the network of personal relations – begin to, from-one-day-to-another, expand through unthought-of domains, reaching the complex instabilities and subjectivities of art?
 
In our challenge to focus on art, we chose to highlight a single, strict and attentive view instead of the diversity of views that are launched occasionally and fortuity on the expressive possibilities of mobile technologies. The ‘view’ of Giselle Beiguelman is launched on the diversity of the nuances that these technologies suggest. Actually, it is not exactly a simple ‘view’, but an immersion in a network of relations enclosed in these systems that supports itself on research, study and experimentation. Facing these technologies requires consistency and knowledge of the issues that permeate the current context – it assumes a minimum distance from excitement brought about by the artifices of seduction enclosed in wireless gadgets.

Giselle’s ‘eye’ echoes in our proposals to explain the complexity of relations that unfolds in mediatized societies, in their political plots, consumption strategies and visual production. It is an intent that we hope can be shared by all of those who spend time observing life in its most current forms, extracting from conflicts and from technological mediations, the inspiration for their work or a better understanding of the environment around us.