Clear Vision NO IMAGE 2

Concept

For this work, I have used a green screen as the backing. A green screen is a device used in video production and online meetings to “project what is needed” while simultaneously “erasing what is unnecessary.” Archiving is also the act of preserving only carefully selected fragments while discarding everything else. I want to turn my attention to those “things that fall through the cracks.” Archiving is not about complete preservation; it is an act that is constantly updated and perpetually incomplete. It is perhaps in those missing parts that the reality of our times resides. Within the work, fragments of reality from different places and times, as well as bits of information from the internet, float freely. These fragments take shape and gain weight upon the physical surface of the painting. This is my personal archive of our times and a modest resistance against the impossibility of eternity. I once read an article stating that approximately 40% of web pages that existed 10 years ago no longer exist. Data, too, quietly decays; links are severed, and records fade away. Was the eternity of the internet, after all, nothing more than an illusion? “NO IMAGE” is a message I occasionally see while scrolling through my X timeline. It likely means that the post has already been deleted and no longer exists online. Only the trace of its disappearance remains on the timeline. The internet is not a perfect archive; it is constantly being updated and is perpetually incomplete. Perhaps it is precisely in those gaps that the reality of our era resides. Translated with DeepL.com (free version)