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In
the installation were exposed 80 works made of fax paper
(thermal paper), which nature will lead them to disappear.
Different series of works (maps, citizens, portraits,
towns and objects) are exposed, all of which went through
a process of "faximilisation". This technique
of manipulation of the picture passing through the fax,
thus creating a new image, permits to blur the border
between the original and the copy. When the fax work (the
"copy") turns out to be the original, the gap
is created . The subversive potential of the fax machine
is not solely fulfilled by this technique, but also by
the change, by the individual, of the genuine
function of the machine (instrument used to the transmission
of information and to communication) and mostly, by the
combination of the both: sending "fax works"
through the machine. The nature of the works, the space
of the exhibition - the foyer of the "Interdisciplinary
Arena" theater - a place where the visitors
are not coming in the aim of seeing exhibitions, and the
way of displaying (works rolled up on the side, so that
the observer is required to get closer and to open the
works in order to look at them), raise interrogations
about the canonical place of the artistic creation, and
its cultural and commercial status.
fax works
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