ORNELLA FIERES 29
Artist statement www.ornellafieres.com
My work explores boundaries and transitions between the digital and analogue space, whereas the idea of space stretches from the human living environment to the vastness of the universe. To investigate these areas, I develop unique photography, video and sound techniques that forcefully juxtapose and merge, not only analogue and digital technologies, but also diverse sources of light and moments in time. The mostly romantic motifs circle around the universe, the sky, the ocean and human life. The practices that I use are developed intuitively in an alchemistic, experimental manner. The results seem diffuse and uncanny: Interferences cast rainbow patterns over black and white images (Interferenz IV, 2015). Pixels merge with film
grain (1887, 2015). Video recordings appear ambiguous and hand-held (Tide, 2014) and sounds seem like they come from the depths of the cosmos. This audio-visual language expresses the poetry and romanticism, which I discover in technology and transforms it into longing, eerie and fleeting motifs. For me, analogue media (e.g. photography) possesses something haptic as it captures light physically. It has a sacred, fetish-like reality. Digitalism, on the other hand, is ephemeral, untouchable and ghostly. Both are fascinating in their own ways – they are magnetizing and repulsive at the same time. My goal is to combine the analogue universe with the digital space. I form an ellipse between universe and earth, analogue and digital, past and present. ∆