TRYST
Alternative Art Fair for Artist-Run-Spaces and Collectives
August 23-25, 2024
Del Amo Crossing, Torrance, Los Angeles, USA
Ronny Faber Dahl, Simona Barbera, Serena Porrati
curated by www.isgisgisgisgisgisgisgisgisg.com
The exhibition showcases cross-disciplinary practices that embody liminal spaces within networks, focusing on the circulation and dissemination of digital archives at the intersection of the screen and physical space. It features encoded images and algorithm-based paintings that explore digitization, 3D rendering, and digital erasure. Spanning screens, fabrics, and open interfaces, these works shift between patterns transferred onto textiles and paper, and sculptural pieces that embody optical interference and synthetic materials.
From obsolete digital archives uploaded to Tumblr to low-definition images, luminous shaders, and altered pixel flows, the exhibition reflects on the rendering process, shifting between online and offline tactile connections. In one series of sculptural works, iridescent bands of colour span the entire length of metal bars. These sculptures explore the process of oxidation, revealing how minimal forces of action can trigger unpredictable, ongoing interactions at an atomic level between the metal, photons, and the photoreceptor cells of the eye.
While files endlessly circulate as binary data, migrating across new drives or clouds, their physical renderings endure the entropy of light and time as canvas and pigment. The mechanical and technological background of the images merges with their materiality, forming a symbiotic relationship. Hexadecimal colour codes evoke physical pigments—bismuth, pyrrole, titanium, carbon, phthalo blue, and quinacridone—hinting at the mineral geology shared with camera components, OLED screens, and E-Ink displays.