2 Seconds (Wave Animation)

Details

Artist: Alma Alloro
Year: 2013
Gallery: TRANSFER Gallery
Duration: 23 Frames
Medium: Animated GIF (800 x 552px)

Description

‘Apophenia’ is a collection of works by Alma Alloro exploring the possibilities — and limitations — of an artist's aura in a digitally-oriented world. Alloro’s meticulous hand drawings make manifest the notion of repetition, a yearning for the infinite. Within the patterns that emerge, however, individual fragments of the animation reveal their lack of continuous identity — a tacit acknowledgement of the imperfections of the human hand.

Alloro considers which aesthetic effects that still lie beyond the scope of digital practice: what can be made with bare hands that can’t be made with a computer? And further, what new means still belong to the realm of tradition, yet embrace new potentials made possible by the digital?