Brush Stroke
Elisa Giardina Papa (IT)
Lucia** =):
How do I delete the grid behind a transparent background?
Re: to @Lucia** =):
It’s like asking where the sun goes at night.
Re: to @Lucia** =):
You understand that it already represents nothing?
How do you represent nothing?
Wherever you see this transparency grid, you know you are looking at nothing.
Brush Stroke is a series of flat, minimalist sculptures printed with a white and grey grid on the front side. Seen and photographed from a specific point of view, it is perceived as a brush stroke that erases the space in which the work is installed, as it would do in an image editing software. Does this work exist as an object in space, or merely as a digital image? Does this distinction make any sense at all?
Elisa Giardina Papa (* 1979) is an Italian artist whose work investigates gender, sexuality, care and labor in relation to neoliberal capitalism and the borders of the Global South. She currently lives and works in New York and Sicily. Giardina Papa received an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design, and a BA from Politecnico of Milan, and she is currently pursuing a PhD in film and media studies at the University of California Berkeley. Giardina Papa is a founding member of the artist collective “Radha May”. Her work has been exhibited and screened at MoMA in New York, Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, Seoul Mediacity Biennale 2018, Unofficial Internet Pavilion of the 54th Venice Biennial, XVI Quadriennale di Roma, rhizome.org [Download Commission], The Flaherty NYC, Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art in Ljubljana, ICA Milano, among others.