is offered, what we are offered by commercial and corporate powers, generating new paths in the production of meaning through diverse reconfigurations and combinations of objects, images and other signs of culture. In this creative practice that operates as a specific critical form of consumption, the “work” is but the expression of a passage through a universe of visual data and references that the artist refuses to consume passively and complacently, preferring to recreate and transform those elements, reconfiguring his or her relations of dependence and opposition in another
way, showing us different and possible ways to “metabolise” the elements that constitute the visual construct of our culture. TRANSLATED
BY
DENA ELLEN COWAN
Juan Martín Prada is author of the books La apropiación posmoderna. Arte, práctica apropiacionista y Teoría de la posmodernidad (2001) and Las nuevas condiciones del arte contemporáneo (2003). He contributes to magazines such as REIS, Red Digital, Papiers d’art, a minima, Temps d’art, Transversal, EXIT Book, Exit Express, Mecad e-Journal and the Culturas supplement of Barcelona’s La Vanguardia newspaper, among many other printed and digital publications. He is currently Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Science and Communication at the Universidad de Cádiz.
Sheena Macrae. Odyssey, 2006. Courtesy of the artist.
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