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Quayola is a visual artist based in London. He investigates dialogues and the unpredictable collisions, tensions and equilibriums between the real and artificial, the figurative and abstract, the old and new. His work explores photography, geometry, time-based digital sculptures and immersive audiovisual installations and performances.
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The term Strata defines a geological formation made of multiple layers of rock. Each one of these layers has its own individual characteristics and history, which combined produce beautiful and unique formations…
The Strata project consist in a series of films, prints and installations investigating improbable relationships between contemporary digital aesthetics and icons of classical art and architecture. Like in geological processes, layers belonging to different ages interact with one another producing new intriguing formations.
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The term ‘Strata’ defines a geological formation constructed of multiple layers of rock; it refers specifically to the idea of relative time, whereby each layer is differentiated from the next through its definite characteristics, its porosity, its texture, its colour, composition. In short it defines a manner of identifying breaks within organic evolution, a visual metaphor for a history composed not so much as a linear process but as an accumulation of signifiers over time: what is known in geology as deep time. It is within the exploration of this ‘depth’ that the project ‘Strata’ takes form, toying with the construction and deconstruction of our solidified perception of classical art, architecture and iconography.
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Operating within the landscape of classical aesthetics; the geometric perfection which lies behind the figuration of the Renaissance, the opulence of the Baroque, or the rigour and integrity of Gothic architecture, Strata strives to reach and unveil what lies beneath the figurative complexity of each icon and structure. It delves under the surface of the image, deconstructing it, reducing it to its essential co-ordinates, colours, geometries; stripping it of its symbolic function.
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Yet through this very process Strata also constructs; generating topographic maps, linear pathways and structures which pulsate, scatter, hang suspended diverging from the origin to the point of another origination; the production of a living abstract landscape. Through this metamorphic process, Strata not only aims at altering one’s perception of the iconic symbolism contained within the architectures but renews an interest in the calculative, generative and arithmetical qualities that lie dormant behind the details of a masterpiece.
Strata #1 from Quayola on Vimeo.
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Strata #2 – Excerpt from Quayola on Vimeo.
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