MEXIKO CITY
Darja Shatalova
1030 Days
1030 days is a walk-in room installation accompanied by a book written by the artist. The work takes up the personal perceptions and official statistics of the pandemic from February 2020 to March 2022 – a total period of 1,030 days. The data is translated into colours, graphs, and spatial codes on a total of 26 levels, each representing a month. A complex network of numbers-based information, diagrammatic notes, emotional maps, and encrypted diary-like entries are condensed into the spatial arrangement.
"The piece addresses a multi-stage transformational process with a personal description of the events of the past two years and official pandemic statistics. It raises questions about constructed realities between subjective and objective descriptions of reality and looks for where a universal truth might be located in this network."
(From the artist statement)
Marija Nujic wrote an essay which delves into encoding data, spatial construction and artistic execution in Shatalova’s 1030 Days. “[…] The lined-up surfaces interact with the space, but without forming a heavy mass. The lightness of the material contrasts the volume of the installation. It is not space-occupying, but -constructing. […] The three graphics run throughout the 26 areas, forming a distinct flow of data. The transformation of all this information, or the coded visualization of overlapping layers, also reveals the autobiographical process consisting of experience (words) and memory (emotion). Therefore, it is measurable and felt time spans of a space-time that are now manifested in an artwork. […]” You can find Nujic's complete article here.
Exhibition view 1030 Days, Vasconcelos Library, Mexico, 2022
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Exhibition view 1030 Days, Vasconcelos Library, Mexico, 2022
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Exhibition view 1030 Days, Vasconcelos Library, Mexico, 2022
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Exhibition view 1030 Days, Vasconcelos Library, Mexico, 2022
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