From digital glitches to mind-bending distortions, Mexico Metropolis-based artist Alexis Mata is considering how visible info will get misplaced or skewed because it shifts from one context to a different. In his oil work, bouquets and huge desert landscapes unfold throughout the canvas as if melting or stretching into unrecognizable types. “When your eyes look too lengthy on the identical factor, your thoughts makes the change,” he shares.
Mata excavates the connection between analog and digital realms, and his course of incorporates each modes of artmaking. Preliminary sketches fill notebooks that journey in every single place the artist does, whereas he frequently snaps pictures and data video as references.
AI experiments assist Mata higher translate the unusual, disorienting outcomes that these quickly evolving instruments can produce. However his analysis isn’t simply visible. “I get pleasure from experimenting by writing poems or haikus in AI and seeing what emerges. It’s an exploratory course of,” he notes.
Rendered in daring coloration palettes, the trippy work draw connections between digital mishaps and the methods our brains warp a picture, whether or not in moments of intense focus, dream states, or with the assistance of hallucinatory substances. “I prefer to suppose that whole worlds are created inside goals, and these worlds ask to be introduced into the sunshine,” he says.
Most of the work proven listed below are on view in Fata Morgana via January 25 at The Gap in Tribeca. Discover extra of Mata’s work, which spans stained glass and textiles to drawing and sculpture, on his web site and Instagram.
