José Carlos Casado, inside.v07, 2021
C-print on photographic paper
Original artwork
13 x 19 inches
Edition: 2/5
Description:
Two figures interface in a hypnotic digital loop. There is something erotic about their movements. Their rolling, hungry heads exceed corporeal limits, suggesting a lover's kiss—a computer-rendered vision of an image depicted in art for eons.
And yet more than a kiss, the bodies hyperconnect in a permeation of the skin boundary that allows one to see inside the other. But are they really only lovers? Could they not also be twins or even clones? In many ways, we take the infinite replicability of the digital medium for granted. Copies, clones, replicas, and rip-offs multiply promiscuously in code.
Casado’s “inside.v07” is a testament to this: its virtual mirror line reveals that one head is identical to the other, yet each is an original animation.
The “inside” series was first displayed in 2002 at the Picasso Foundation in Málaga, Spain, and in 2004 at the Postmasters’ NYC Gallery. By revisiting Casado’s work in 2021, this piece asks how this dialectic of originality, the interplay of the new and the old, has changed in the intervening years.
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Description
C-print on photographic paper
Original artwork
13 x 19 inches
Edition: 2/5
Description:
Two figures interface in a hypnotic digital loop. There is something erotic about their movements. Their rolling, hungry heads exceed corporeal limits, suggesting a lover's kiss—a computer-rendered vision of an image depicted in art for eons.
And yet more than a kiss, the bodies hyperconnect in a permeation of the skin boundary that allows one to see inside the other. But are they really only lovers? Could they not also be twins or even clones? In many ways, we take the infinite replicability of the digital medium for granted. Copies, clones, replicas, and rip-offs multiply promiscuously in code.
Casado’s “inside.v07” is a testament to this: its virtual mirror line reveals that one head is identical to the other, yet each is an original animation.
The “inside” series was first displayed in 2002 at the Picasso Foundation in Málaga, Spain, and in 2004 at the Postmasters’ NYC Gallery. By revisiting Casado’s work in 2021, this piece asks how this dialectic of originality, the interplay of the new and the old, has changed in the intervening years.
Ships from New York
