The Unidentified Flying Objects

Details

Artist: Alma Alloro
Year: 2016
Gallery: TRANSFER Gallery
Medium: Looped Moving Image, 4:3 Display (1440 x 1080px)
Duration: 00:31; looped

Description

TRANSFER Gallery's second solo exhibition with Berlin-based artist Alma Alloro presents her new body of work consisting of a series of large scale patchwork quilts, carefully crafted to generate animated abstract films. ‘Big Screen’ moves between the traditional craft of quilting typically associated with feminine labor, and the world of animation and motion graphics. Alloro recasts the attempts made by early modernist artists to create a formal visual language for experimental film aesthetic.

As a natural evolution of previous works, Alloro has resisted the use of technology in favor of a handcrafted approach, referencing digital aesthetics through elements inherent in the nature of her practice. Alloro’s 2014 solo show at TRANSFER used grids of graph paper to draw a connection to the grid of the digital image – in ‘Big Screen’ the grids of the quilt work make a similar connection. The anecdotal reference to the 4:3 aspect ratio in each of the patches, along with transition from black and white to color, analog to digital and frame by frame animation hint at further connections to the many tropes and conventions of the history of screen based media