BIRDSJUMP

In 2010 an image spotted by NASA’s Spirit rover on Mars revealed a gorilla in a small detail
of a picture that the space agency shared. Due to the poor quality of the widely shared
detail of this image, a huge online community became obsessed with the notion that a
gorilla was in fact living on Mars.
The human eye is naturally inclined to assemble disconnected patches of light and dark
and unconsciously recognise faces or figures in irregular surfaces, like trees or rocks. This
highly complex phenomena has been evolving for millions of years to protect humans from
danger.
There is a contradiction in the fact that our most primitive capacities still react in a highly
image mediated environment (like it happened in the Internet with the gorilla on mars)
where there is no real physical danger.
In my art practice I explore how this images transform their significance by being placed in
a fully packed means of information and how they challenge the bridge between fiction and
reality. I do this by recreating them in real world objects that are self consciously hand
made and by doing this I intend to explore what is, after all, the importance that is left
behind in the material world in a highly image mediated culture that is increasingly
detached from the real and the physical?