Evidence II
Claudia Gianella
Student
Claudia Gianella Academic staff
Diego Tonus Course
ORIGINAL COPY Program
BA Major Art Semester
2022/23 SS Claudia Gianella
Evidence II
Natural latex
Sculpture
Variable dimensions
2023 (ongoing)
Evidence II is a sculptural work that deals with a variety of objects’ surfaces which are entirely touched while being employed. Human traces such as digital impressions, dirt, and dust are removed through a process involving the layering of absorbent material, that consequentially leaves the object clean. These remains are displayed as relics of passage and usage.
A project made in the course
ORIGINAL COPY
ORIGINAL COPY is devised as a space where participants question the meaning of an ‘original’ and its ‘copy’ in contemporary art by exploring various practices of reproduction, copying, and remaking, as well as examining their power as active gestures and critical interpretations to arrive to a ‘new original’. What reproduction modes and techniques are available nowadays to an artist? What is the meaning of ‘original’ in the historical moment we are living in and what is its relationship to authenticity? What is a copy and what is a ‘new original’?