Fernando_M_Romero_Artist https://fernandomromero.com Fernando_M_Romero_Artist Sat, 15 May 2021 12:56:40 +0000 https://fernandomromero.com en HOME PAGE (current) https://fernandomromero.com/HOME-PAGE-current Sat, 15 May 2021 12:56:40 +0000 Fernando_M_Romero_Artist https://fernandomromero.com/HOME-PAGE-current _Idiorrhythms_Arrangement_01 <img width="1668" height="2500" width_o="1668" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2335801ae0a716914dbedb8ecfca4477374942fa70a89c3c033125fccbe04bf7/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--B--Individual-Works-08.jpg" data-mid="108529971" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2335801ae0a716914dbedb8ecfca4477374942fa70a89c3c033125fccbe04bf7/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--B--Individual-Works-08.jpg" /> <img width="1668" height="2500" width_o="1668" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3a366ad4b75038a5ec2da1e76c99137824faf552eeaea9ed5153cdc8775783a9/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--B--Individual-Works-04.jpg" data-mid="108529967" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3a366ad4b75038a5ec2da1e76c99137824faf552eeaea9ed5153cdc8775783a9/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--B--Individual-Works-04.jpg" /> 2020 IDIORRHYTHMS: Arrangement #1 / SCAN Projects (London, UK) This project originates from a fragment by translator Kate Briggs in her book 'This Little Art', in which she reflects on her experience translating Roland Barthes’ last talks and notes, compiled in his posthumous book&nbsp;'How to Live Together'&nbsp;(2013). Briggs’ text raises questions about translation as a discipline and Barthes' thinking about writing, music and rewriting that are of interest in Fernando M.&nbsp;Romero's artistic practice. The text has been erased of its content and reduced only to its punctuation, to its rhythm or cadence. As such, it is used by the artist as a 'score' that originates the different elements of the project. The notions of appropriation, (re)writing and transmission translate on the surfaces of the modules and pieces that articulate the installation. The hand, gesture and contact in relation to the act of writing or reading (Braille), or even sign language, have been subjects of interest in the artist's production for some time. Now, the transfer of matter or the random gestures and traces on various surfaces acquire a new reading in the context of the recent period of confinement. These processes of transfer between surfaces are materialized in a series of modules or structures in wood, paper and black ink, which are perforated following the punctuation of the original text, acquiring value as autonomous semantic containers that can be arranged in space in multiple possible configurations, thus reflecting its own internal grammar. They work halfway between lines of writing lines, a punched music sheets, blackboards, tables, or benches, and are punctuated and traversed by a white cotton rope that echoing knot-based proto-writing systems, introduces a new reading layer to the installation. With one end dipped in a black ink container which will gradually impregnate it, the rope acts as a temporary record, reinforcing the idea of transmission and time folding on itself (or slowed down). The installation is therefore activated and writes itself unpredictably during the duration of the exhibition. The original text is also transcribed in two music boxes installed on the wall, which as interactive elements, invite the viewers to 'play' and 'read' the score in a rhythm and manner of their own, creating the possibility of a sound dialogue and of interference. In this way, the project conceives communication as an always open and unfinished conversation, which requires our participation to make sense. Distance and rhythm (or the difference thereof) are linked in the Barthesian notion of 'idiorrhythmy', or as he defined it in 'How to Live Together', in a ‘socialism of distance’. <img width="1669" height="2500" width_o="1669" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0caa0c54b8bb482bb893479d6f3ad127f47b130b6315f17719a863f2c4388b18/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--B--Individual-Works-02_mod.jpg" data-mid="108529980" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0caa0c54b8bb482bb893479d6f3ad127f47b130b6315f17719a863f2c4388b18/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--B--Individual-Works-02_mod.jpg" /> <img width="1669" height="2500" width_o="1669" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bbcbd7aaaf55203d7695cd602804c502cc01434562785186fd0ed824d6198813/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--B--Individual-Works-01_detail_02.jpg" data-mid="108529982" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bbcbd7aaaf55203d7695cd602804c502cc01434562785186fd0ed824d6198813/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--B--Individual-Works-01_detail_02.jpg" /> String arrangements #1 Oil on paper, wood, cotton cord and oil paint. 250x100x30cm. 2020 <img width="1800" height="1350" width_o="1800" height_o="1350" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/751fa32c147a393776459fb59e80c927dc07b75d5a86b8e9e8ba322d2bdc4c67/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--C--Details-04_mod.jpg" data-mid="108529981" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/751fa32c147a393776459fb59e80c927dc07b75d5a86b8e9e8ba322d2bdc4c67/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--C--Details-04_mod.jpg" /> (detail) <img width="2500" height="1669" width_o="2500" height_o="1669" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9c6c6675adcc928b0605e855ae8473c53129084fb0b094afd4520acf55bccfa1/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--A--Overview-03.jpg" data-mid="108529965" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9c6c6675adcc928b0605e855ae8473c53129084fb0b094afd4520acf55bccfa1/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--A--Overview-03.jpg" /> <img width="1875" height="2500" width_o="1875" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/751540789400d3b17f30c64e6df519eca050ff20760de9bc8dc39befc46ed22c/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--B--Individual-Works-06.jpg" data-mid="108529969" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/751540789400d3b17f30c64e6df519eca050ff20760de9bc8dc39befc46ed22c/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--B--Individual-Works-06.jpg" /> Idiorrhythms. Movement #1
 Oil on paper mounted on wood. 100x70x7cm. 2020 <img width="1800" height="1202" width_o="1800" height_o="1202" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d82f95b8782cd6a972830571bfce817015b81e75794b8bec23a8e71b7f715340/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--B--Individual-Works-05.jpg" data-mid="108529968" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d82f95b8782cd6a972830571bfce817015b81e75794b8bec23a8e71b7f715340/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--B--Individual-Works-05.jpg" />Three times faster Oil on paper and wood. 140x100x30cm. 2020 <img width="2000" height="2668" width_o="2000" height_o="2668" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7a426aae2ffcc5fb3b5211d0583cd2b29b106064f4789b7d22d4c79caa80ecbb/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--B--Individual-Works-07_detail.jpg" data-mid="108529962" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7a426aae2ffcc5fb3b5211d0583cd2b29b106064f4789b7d22d4c79caa80ecbb/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--B--Individual-Works-07_detail.jpg" /> <img width="1668" height="2500" width_o="1668" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9015d69193cd38a60158769e98e8721474a314fccde2160b70ddd26dd7e11adb/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--B--Individual-Works-09.jpg" data-mid="108529972" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9015d69193cd38a60158769e98e8721474a314fccde2160b70ddd26dd7e11adb/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--B--Individual-Works-09.jpg" /> Imperfect lovers (punctuation score) Inkjet print, music boxes and punched scores. 100x30x30cm. 2020 <img width="1625" height="2159" width_o="1625" height_o="2159" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0478f813b48f1507a810bb0a28b988274db555706df66c1840380a1d4f1e1280/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--B--Individual-Works-08_detail_01.jpg" data-mid="108529961" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0478f813b48f1507a810bb0a28b988274db555706df66c1840380a1d4f1e1280/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--B--Individual-Works-08_detail_01.jpg" /> (detail) <img width="1800" height="1371" width_o="1800" height_o="1371" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f89c95da0bebcdb3bfb38cd669ae6225255829b0f94850076413fa529be3c06e/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--A--Overview-01_mod.jpg" data-mid="108529978" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f89c95da0bebcdb3bfb38cd669ae6225255829b0f94850076413fa529be3c06e/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--A--Overview-01_mod.jpg" /> <img width="1669" height="2500" width_o="1669" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5afca5c1bca14db672574623153a88d2ec799a9c54831155bc01905edab2027e/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--B--Individual-Works-03.jpg" data-mid="108529966" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5afca5c1bca14db672574623153a88d2ec799a9c54831155bc01905edab2027e/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--B--Individual-Works-03.jpg" /> Idiorrhythms. Movement #2 Oil on paper and wood. 200x70x30cm. 2020 <img width="1875" height="2500" width_o="1875" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5b3ffc52559ee873a44aa15077dffb80b019c9f780aeb9d9cf3d7fe5e9d75ed4/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--C--Details-05.jpg" data-mid="108529973" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5b3ffc52559ee873a44aa15077dffb80b019c9f780aeb9d9cf3d7fe5e9d75ed4/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--C--Details-05.jpg" /> <img width="1668" height="2500" width_o="1668" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dcb7150a44458a270afb4d10e2fad6ef3be8a6a11d886903c8ded1bae4c16c6e/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--C--Details-03.jpg" data-mid="108529977" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dcb7150a44458a270afb4d10e2fad6ef3be8a6a11d886903c8ded1bae4c16c6e/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--C--Details-03.jpg" /> (detail) <img width="1800" height="2043" width_o="1800" height_o="2043" 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9e7419bd602103f21191b657de25d63b7cd7837fda12e34898a0803b54ec9930/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--B--Individual-Works-09_detail_01.jpg" data-mid="108529959" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9e7419bd602103f21191b657de25d63b7cd7837fda12e34898a0803b54ec9930/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--B--Individual-Works-09_detail_01.jpg" /> (detail) <img width="1668" height="2500" width_o="1668" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/19a5ff4158e973304c6a77d68003486bf033ba7acecf252e647c4496c5983d01/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--C--Details-02.jpg" data-mid="108529976" border="0" data-scale="89" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/19a5ff4158e973304c6a77d68003486bf033ba7acecf252e647c4496c5983d01/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--C--Details-02.jpg" /> <img width="1875" height="2500" width_o="1875" height_o="2500" 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https://fernandomromero.com/Idiorrhythms-Arrangement-1 Wed, 15 Jul 2020 23:54:59 +0000 Fernando_M_Romero_Artist https://fernandomromero.com/Idiorrhythms-Arrangement-1 _Idiorrhythms_Arrangement_01 <img width="1668" height="2500" width_o="1668" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2335801ae0a716914dbedb8ecfca4477374942fa70a89c3c033125fccbe04bf7/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--B--Individual-Works-08.jpg" data-mid="77822677" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2335801ae0a716914dbedb8ecfca4477374942fa70a89c3c033125fccbe04bf7/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--B--Individual-Works-08.jpg" /> <img width="1668" height="2500" width_o="1668" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3a366ad4b75038a5ec2da1e76c99137824faf552eeaea9ed5153cdc8775783a9/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--B--Individual-Works-04.jpg" data-mid="77822656" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3a366ad4b75038a5ec2da1e76c99137824faf552eeaea9ed5153cdc8775783a9/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--B--Individual-Works-04.jpg" /> 2020 IDIORRHYTHMS: Arrangement #1 / SCAN Projects (London, UK) This project originates from a fragment by translator Kate Briggs in her book 'This Little Art', in which she reflects on her experience translating Roland Barthes’ last talks and notes, compiled in his posthumous book&nbsp;'How to Live Together'&nbsp;(2013). Briggs’ text raises questions about translation as a discipline and Barthes' thinking about writing, music and rewriting that are of interest in Fernando M.&nbsp;Romero's artistic practice. The text has been erased of its content and reduced only to its punctuation, to its rhythm or cadence. As such, it is used by the artist as a 'score' that originates the different elements of the project. The notions of appropriation, (re)writing and transmission translate on the surfaces of the modules and pieces that articulate the installation. The hand, gesture and contact in relation to the act of writing or reading (Braille), or even sign language, have been subjects of interest in the artist's production for some time. Now, the transfer of matter or the random gestures and traces on various surfaces acquire a new reading in the context of the recent period of confinement. These processes of transfer between surfaces are materialized in a series of modules or structures in wood, paper and black ink, which are perforated following the punctuation of the original text, acquiring value as autonomous semantic containers that can be arranged in space in multiple possible configurations, thus reflecting its own internal grammar. They work halfway between lines of writing lines, a punched music sheets, blackboards, tables, or benches, and are punctuated and traversed by a white cotton rope that echoing knot-based proto-writing systems, introduces a new reading layer to the installation. With one end dipped in a black ink container which will gradually impregnate it, the rope acts as a temporary record, reinforcing the idea of transmission and time folding on itself (or slowed down). The installation is therefore activated and writes itself unpredictably during the duration of the exhibition. The original text is also transcribed in two music boxes installed on the wall, which as interactive elements, invite the viewers to 'play' and 'read' the score in a rhythm and manner of their own, creating the possibility of a sound dialogue and of interference. In this way, the project conceives communication as an always open and unfinished conversation, which requires our participation to make sense. Distance and rhythm (or the difference thereof) are linked in the Barthesian notion of 'idiorrhythmy', or as he defined it in 'How to Live Together', in a ‘socialism of distance’. <img width="1669" height="2500" width_o="1669" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0caa0c54b8bb482bb893479d6f3ad127f47b130b6315f17719a863f2c4388b18/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--B--Individual-Works-02_mod.jpg" data-mid="77822686" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0caa0c54b8bb482bb893479d6f3ad127f47b130b6315f17719a863f2c4388b18/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--B--Individual-Works-02_mod.jpg" /> <img width="1669" height="2500" width_o="1669" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bbcbd7aaaf55203d7695cd602804c502cc01434562785186fd0ed824d6198813/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--B--Individual-Works-01_detail_02.jpg" data-mid="77825581" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bbcbd7aaaf55203d7695cd602804c502cc01434562785186fd0ed824d6198813/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--B--Individual-Works-01_detail_02.jpg" /> String arrangements #1 Oil on paper, wood, cotton cord and oil paint. 250x100x30cm. 2020 <img width="1800" height="1350" width_o="1800" height_o="1350" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/751fa32c147a393776459fb59e80c927dc07b75d5a86b8e9e8ba322d2bdc4c67/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--C--Details-04_mod.jpg" data-mid="77822687" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/751fa32c147a393776459fb59e80c927dc07b75d5a86b8e9e8ba322d2bdc4c67/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--C--Details-04_mod.jpg" /> (detail) <img width="2500" height="1669" width_o="2500" height_o="1669" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9c6c6675adcc928b0605e855ae8473c53129084fb0b094afd4520acf55bccfa1/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--A--Overview-03.jpg" data-mid="77822654" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9c6c6675adcc928b0605e855ae8473c53129084fb0b094afd4520acf55bccfa1/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--A--Overview-03.jpg" /> <img width="1875" height="2500" width_o="1875" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/751540789400d3b17f30c64e6df519eca050ff20760de9bc8dc39befc46ed22c/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--B--Individual-Works-06.jpg" data-mid="77822661" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/751540789400d3b17f30c64e6df519eca050ff20760de9bc8dc39befc46ed22c/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--B--Individual-Works-06.jpg" /> Idiorrhythms. Movement #1
 Oil on paper mounted on wood. 100x70x7cm. 2020 <img width="1800" height="1202" width_o="1800" height_o="1202" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d82f95b8782cd6a972830571bfce817015b81e75794b8bec23a8e71b7f715340/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--B--Individual-Works-05.jpg" data-mid="77822657" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d82f95b8782cd6a972830571bfce817015b81e75794b8bec23a8e71b7f715340/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--B--Individual-Works-05.jpg" />Three times faster Oil on paper and wood. 140x100x30cm. 2020 <img width="2000" height="2668" width_o="2000" height_o="2668" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7a426aae2ffcc5fb3b5211d0583cd2b29b106064f4789b7d22d4c79caa80ecbb/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--B--Individual-Works-07_detail.jpg" data-mid="77822651" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7a426aae2ffcc5fb3b5211d0583cd2b29b106064f4789b7d22d4c79caa80ecbb/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--B--Individual-Works-07_detail.jpg" /> <img width="1668" height="2500" width_o="1668" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9015d69193cd38a60158769e98e8721474a314fccde2160b70ddd26dd7e11adb/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--B--Individual-Works-09.jpg" data-mid="77822678" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9015d69193cd38a60158769e98e8721474a314fccde2160b70ddd26dd7e11adb/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--B--Individual-Works-09.jpg" /> Imperfect lovers (punctuation score) Inkjet print, music boxes and punched scores. 100x30x30cm. 2020 <img width="1625" height="2159" width_o="1625" height_o="2159" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0478f813b48f1507a810bb0a28b988274db555706df66c1840380a1d4f1e1280/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--B--Individual-Works-08_detail_01.jpg" data-mid="77822650" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0478f813b48f1507a810bb0a28b988274db555706df66c1840380a1d4f1e1280/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--B--Individual-Works-08_detail_01.jpg" /> (detail) <img width="1800" height="1371" width_o="1800" height_o="1371" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f89c95da0bebcdb3bfb38cd669ae6225255829b0f94850076413fa529be3c06e/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--A--Overview-01_mod.jpg" data-mid="77822684" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f89c95da0bebcdb3bfb38cd669ae6225255829b0f94850076413fa529be3c06e/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--A--Overview-01_mod.jpg" /> <img width="1669" height="2500" width_o="1669" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5afca5c1bca14db672574623153a88d2ec799a9c54831155bc01905edab2027e/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--B--Individual-Works-03.jpg" data-mid="77822655" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5afca5c1bca14db672574623153a88d2ec799a9c54831155bc01905edab2027e/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--B--Individual-Works-03.jpg" /> Idiorrhythms. Movement #2 Oil on paper and wood. 200x70x30cm. 2020 <img width="1875" height="2500" width_o="1875" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5b3ffc52559ee873a44aa15077dffb80b019c9f780aeb9d9cf3d7fe5e9d75ed4/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--C--Details-05.jpg" data-mid="77822679" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5b3ffc52559ee873a44aa15077dffb80b019c9f780aeb9d9cf3d7fe5e9d75ed4/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--C--Details-05.jpg" /> <img width="1668" height="2500" width_o="1668" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dcb7150a44458a270afb4d10e2fad6ef3be8a6a11d886903c8ded1bae4c16c6e/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--C--Details-03.jpg" data-mid="77822683" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dcb7150a44458a270afb4d10e2fad6ef3be8a6a11d886903c8ded1bae4c16c6e/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--C--Details-03.jpg" /> (detail) <img width="1800" height="2043" width_o="1800" height_o="2043" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0f214be888ba58e0f6242af62aa0e8f8c4d9918dff0f086e663b8596089ec473/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--A--Overview-02_mod.jpg" data-mid="77822685" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0f214be888ba58e0f6242af62aa0e8f8c4d9918dff0f086e663b8596089ec473/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--A--Overview-02_mod.jpg" /> <img width="1875" height="2500" width_o="1875" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2870598c80a144dca42c1ca8500ba75d8467eae89c7f0f5ac3e40f474f6b9ec4/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--B--Individual-Works-07.jpg" data-mid="77822674" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2870598c80a144dca42c1ca8500ba75d8467eae89c7f0f5ac3e40f474f6b9ec4/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--B--Individual-Works-07.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="2746" width_o="2000" height_o="2746" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9e7419bd602103f21191b657de25d63b7cd7837fda12e34898a0803b54ec9930/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--B--Individual-Works-09_detail_01.jpg" data-mid="77822648" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9e7419bd602103f21191b657de25d63b7cd7837fda12e34898a0803b54ec9930/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--B--Individual-Works-09_detail_01.jpg" /> (detail) <img width="1668" height="2500" width_o="1668" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/19a5ff4158e973304c6a77d68003486bf033ba7acecf252e647c4496c5983d01/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--C--Details-02.jpg" data-mid="77822682" border="0" data-scale="89" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/19a5ff4158e973304c6a77d68003486bf033ba7acecf252e647c4496c5983d01/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--C--Details-02.jpg" /> <img width="1875" height="2500" width_o="1875" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b42a5767c26aba8b991b9ef0844205431dc659a67c79194a0362b303cc8d7018/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--C--Details-06.jpg" data-mid="77822680" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b42a5767c26aba8b991b9ef0844205431dc659a67c79194a0362b303cc8d7018/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--C--Details-06.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1568" width_o="2000" height_o="1568" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6ccdbbde4ef7674e91422eacfc0f878f6cfa865e470344115ad69e3b7127bcea/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--B--Individual-Works-05_detail.jpg" data-mid="77822652" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6ccdbbde4ef7674e91422eacfc0f878f6cfa865e470344115ad69e3b7127bcea/Fernando-M-Romero--IDIORRYTHMS--B--Individual-Works-05_detail.jpg" /> (detail) Lures https://fernandomromero.com/Lures Thu, 16 Jul 2020 19:03:18 +0000 Fernando_M_Romero_Artist https://fernandomromero.com/Lures _Lures <img width="1691" height="1510" width_o="1691" height_o="1510" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6ccaab6c525344856b491a23f3d623f6e0765adba0c72454d7c93a89d22f9098/fernandomromero_lures_tension_03.jpg" data-mid="77581765" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6ccaab6c525344856b491a23f3d623f6e0765adba0c72454d7c93a89d22f9098/fernandomromero_lures_tension_03.jpg" /> 2020 LURES / Tension ( London, UK) Planes of information and notes of some relation are seen here broadening a purpose from whence a viewer may depart. ‘Lures’ selected by Ken Turner during the annual MFA graduate exhibitions in 2019 issues a comforting level of familiarity between the tones and investigations of John Atherton, James Low and Fernando M. Romero.Language, translation and the manipulation of multiple sources including those outside of the strictly visual are at play. The three artists employ blurred lines, torn fragments and illusory surfaces, whereupon any representational material functions like a hidden clue or a floating monad. In so doing these works approach the heterogeneous nature of image construction as a post-conceptual practice promoting it’s ever-expanding significance whilst embracing the lures of its conventions. <img width="1800" height="2493" width_o="1800" height_o="2493" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cce1c29c26acb6b149e486719ae342b1ad5d4fee62e757fb3f86607bb871a3af/fernandomromero_lures_tension_01.jpg" data-mid="77581767" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cce1c29c26acb6b149e486719ae342b1ad5d4fee62e757fb3f86607bb871a3af/fernandomromero_lures_tension_01.jpg" /> Conversation piece 02 Oil&nbsp; on polyester, stretcher and paper. 170x130cm. 2020 <img width="1800" height="1454" width_o="1800" height_o="1454" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ba12f8dcbe4746a85787ad2c4c86c7ae5c907270e09229a5600a319d803daefa/fernandomromero_lures_tension_04.jpg" data-mid="77586458" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ba12f8dcbe4746a85787ad2c4c86c7ae5c907270e09229a5600a319d803daefa/fernandomromero_lures_tension_04.jpg" /> Conversation piece 01Oil on polyester and paper, stretchers, collage and wood.175x200 cm. 2020 <img width="1800" height="2289" width_o="1800" height_o="2289" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d33a66621bb9d96d637b47fbe441353dd9590734ad8b349931026abc8c3d6688/fernandomromero_lures_tension_09.jpg" data-mid="77589355" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d33a66621bb9d96d637b47fbe441353dd9590734ad8b349931026abc8c3d6688/fernandomromero_lures_tension_09.jpg" /> Conversation piece 01Oil on polyester, canvas and paper, stretchers and wood.175x200 cm. 2020 <img width="1800" height="1197" width_o="1800" height_o="1197" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/29b61fd893ab6d383d0e617c6c445f081ac96983af31731848ffd43d41be59f3/fernandomromero_lures_tension_08.jpg" data-mid="77588858" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/29b61fd893ab6d383d0e617c6c445f081ac96983af31731848ffd43d41be59f3/fernandomromero_lures_tension_08.jpg" /> (detail) <img width="1800" height="1197" width_o="1800" height_o="1197" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/08a568e9a5104e365b64d7845a2b64626496d82d7c8774cdd4127529757d7dd8/fernandomromero_lures_tension_05.jpg" data-mid="77587561" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/08a568e9a5104e365b64d7845a2b64626496d82d7c8774cdd4127529757d7dd8/fernandomromero_lures_tension_05.jpg" /> (detail) <img width="1800" height="1197" width_o="1800" height_o="1197" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ae96b6a415e12b2f296dc1ce1375e13a81513594214e698e7dcf457ad58936e0/fernandomromero_lures_tension_07.jpg" data-mid="77588859" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ae96b6a415e12b2f296dc1ce1375e13a81513594214e698e7dcf457ad58936e0/fernandomromero_lures_tension_07.jpg" /> Screens https://fernandomromero.com/Screens Mon, 20 Jul 2020 16:45:17 +0000 Fernando_M_Romero_Artist https://fernandomromero.com/Screens _Screens <img width="2000" height="1244" width_o="2000" height_o="1244" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/15f94a42c357dd1310df11aad4bfc2a8936efbe788aab7899691b0f44a01ce35/FernandoMRomero_Plop_06.jpg" data-mid="77863638" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/15f94a42c357dd1310df11aad4bfc2a8936efbe788aab7899691b0f44a01ce35/FernandoMRomero_Plop_06.jpg" /> 2019 SCREENS / Plop ( London, UK) Project produced and presented at the PLOP Residency in 2019. <img width="1800" height="2707" width_o="1800" height_o="2707" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/340405ab4f1330ef7eacbd8a2a48766395f33a7404277cd087bada45f674bfbd/FernandoMRomero_Plop_04.jpg" data-mid="77863427" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/340405ab4f1330ef7eacbd8a2a48766395f33a7404277cd087bada45f674bfbd/FernandoMRomero_Plop_04.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1330" width_o="2000" height_o="1330" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/561aa8aae26019d10faa485d4e5d349633710a0449856164c2aee4a1d4aa5f53/FernandoMRomero_Plop_11.jpg" data-mid="77863788" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/561aa8aae26019d10faa485d4e5d349633710a0449856164c2aee4a1d4aa5f53/FernandoMRomero_Plop_11.jpg" /> <img width="1800" height="2278" width_o="1800" height_o="2278" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7d32dcb5b807db0efd8026697f680f594c207dd80fdd2503c28fe7f958bfdb69/FernandoMRomero_Plop_07.jpg" data-mid="77864329" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7d32dcb5b807db0efd8026697f680f594c207dd80fdd2503c28fe7f958bfdb69/FernandoMRomero_Plop_07.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1330" width_o="2000" height_o="1330" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7e7c14a77e28b9e9430b4921cc53d4288e65677e53fe5676fef688d713d95cd1/FernandoMRomero_Plop_09.jpg" data-mid="77855639" border="0" 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ab43589eaed3774644dc05c02f811745fa860576abb4a076d465d3bc03eaa914/FernandoMRomero_Plop_17.jpg" data-mid="77865389" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ab43589eaed3774644dc05c02f811745fa860576abb4a076d465d3bc03eaa914/FernandoMRomero_Plop_17.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1330" width_o="2000" height_o="1330" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6d380fe86181c1906b7ed0b5d1fb8aa3f60fb7c73327df431ae21ced5a1380d2/FernandoMRomero_Plop_19.jpg" data-mid="77855627" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6d380fe86181c1906b7ed0b5d1fb8aa3f60fb7c73327df431ae21ced5a1380d2/FernandoMRomero_Plop_19.jpg" /> <img width="1800" height="2237" width_o="1800" height_o="2237" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6d29eb81e13927e18c6559ab0968f3314fb8c7e837dd101f4969eda621ace540/FernandoMRomero_Plop_21.jpg" data-mid="77864692" border="0" 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src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/808c4d99582ca8e4d0f5515a4cdcc1520093db8febca7b034ea036e8df6f2278/_Fernando_M_Romero_seeing_is_also_a_movement_09_01.jpg" /> 2019 PALIMPSEST / Collyer Bristow Gallery ( London, UK) Works exhibited at the Exceptional Award at the Collyer Bristow Gallery in London in 2019. <img width="2000" height="1330" width_o="2000" height_o="1330" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b946772c6df931ae6ea32869eda4e8bb8357b6642a62157b7920f638218b5164/fernandomromero_palimpsest_06.jpg" data-mid="78174411" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b946772c6df931ae6ea32869eda4e8bb8357b6642a62157b7920f638218b5164/fernandomromero_palimpsest_06.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="3008" width_o="2000" height_o="3008" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d7f5f4e0190c54ede8c4c5c9412641118ed26f8a8ded4bd40e26d040f056031f/fernandomromero_palimpsest_02.jpg" data-mid="78174416" border="0" 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7cce592d10311991cf8ba4bd02bca18da6f960cf983fcb9846f0679363868b2b/fernandomromero_palimpsest_13.jpg" data-mid="78174403" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7cce592d10311991cf8ba4bd02bca18da6f960cf983fcb9846f0679363868b2b/fernandomromero_palimpsest_13.jpg" /> Seeing is also a movement_01 https://fernandomromero.com/Seeing-is-also-a-movement_01 Thu, 23 Jul 2020 17:14:16 +0000 Fernando_M_Romero_Artist https://fernandomromero.com/Seeing-is-also-a-movement_01 _Seeing is also a movement_01 <img width="2000" height="3008" width_o="2000" height_o="3008" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3769aaa644c95d30f513496b953d47acb1d174dd0ec26d02b4007f6aba7c295d/FMR_seeing-is-also-a-movement-01_web_2000px_66.jpg" data-mid="78176165" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3769aaa644c95d30f513496b953d47acb1d174dd0ec26d02b4007f6aba7c295d/FMR_seeing-is-also-a-movement-01_web_2000px_66.jpg" /> 2019 SEEING IS ALSO A MOVEMENT_01 / RCA ( London, UK) Maurice Blanchot´s original fragments and quotes from his book&nbsp;"The Infinite Conversation"&nbsp;act in this project like the sources from which to activate a cascade of unorthodox readings, mistranslations and rewritings of the same information. Online apps and services such as&nbsp;Google Translate&nbsp;or music software are used here in combination with more traditional mediums and languages like&nbsp;Painting&nbsp;or&nbsp;Morse code&nbsp;to "read" and activate the resulting information. The outcoming works raise questions about agency, obsolescence and our ambivalent relationship to the ubiquity of artificial intelligence and machine learning in our daily life. Throughout a polyphony of surfaces and echoes, the works in this show explore many ways of writing, coding, reading and rewriting, examining therefore how we relate to information, communication and attention. Among these works, we find poems "written" by the neuronal network behind Google Translate, music generated through online free apps reading erased pages of books, infinite conversations in Morse code between dead authors and machines. Language, as well as optical media, can both illuminate and obscure, reveal and conceal, as we find today in issues such as social networks, fake news, machine learning and cryptography. These works conceive every translation as a movement between codes, languages and fields. In parallel, they require active movement around the space from the spectator and involvement from the viewer to unfold all the possible readings, resonances and loops. These repeated "translational gestures" highlight that even the most radical form of erasure or translation is nothing but a kind of rewriting from which new grammars might happen to arise. <img width="2000" height="3008" width_o="2000" height_o="3008" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0ceb4cb4548ccffc8afeee263f7bef2a7d51dfbcbe18f683d2165c1bd2eeb31b/FMR_seeing-is-also-a-movement-01_detail_web_2000px.jpg" data-mid="78176156" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0ceb4cb4548ccffc8afeee263f7bef2a7d51dfbcbe18f683d2165c1bd2eeb31b/FMR_seeing-is-also-a-movement-01_detail_web_2000px.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1330" width_o="2000" height_o="1330" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8b7ab15832e511b9fe68d8a29a07eeb9be5c67fa5c58eef14f496657636517bf/fernandomromero_seeingisalsomovement_detail_02.jpg" data-mid="78860566" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8b7ab15832e511b9fe68d8a29a07eeb9be5c67fa5c58eef14f496657636517bf/fernandomromero_seeingisalsomovement_detail_02.jpg" /> Infinite Conversation (2019), is a 2-channel video and sound piece presented at my degree show at the RCA (London). It is based on different ways of rewriting, encoding and mistranslating an original quote from Maurice Blanchot's "The Infinite Conversation". The original quote ("seeing is also a movement") is translated into Morse code and introduced in Google Translate (which doesn't recognize the language). As a result, it triggers a weird dadaist poem about time, presence, absence and repetition. The video/sound piece displays a conversation in an infinite loop between 2 audio tracks "speaking" in Morse code. The first of them encode the original quote, the second one, do so with part of the poem resulting from Google Translate's mistranslation. The Morse frequencies trigger on both screens fragments of marks and brushstrokes operating as a language or score, mirroring the conversation overlapping on the speakers. Maurice Blanchot's original fragments and quotes from his book "The Infinite Conversation" act in this project like the sources from which to activate a cascade of unorthodox readings, mistranslations and rewritings of the same information. Online apps and services such as Google Translate or music software are used here in combination with more traditional mediums and languages like Painting or Morse code to "read" and activate the resulting information. The outcoming works raise questions about agency, obsolescence and our ambivalent relationship to the ubiquity of artificial intelligence and machine learning in our daily life. Language, as well as optical media, can both illuminate and obscure, reveal and conceal, as we find today in issues such as social networks, fake news, machine learning and cryptography. These repeated "translational gestures" highlight that even the most radical form of erasure or translation is nothing but a kind of rewriting from which new grammars might happen to arise. <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/07551a4e726c209769f805d176450ca54c7a970126dcddf59a3c892cf5e9f819/fernandomromero_ihavenotbeenherebefore_detail_18.jpg" data-mid="78859655" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/07551a4e726c209769f805d176450ca54c7a970126dcddf59a3c892cf5e9f819/fernandomromero_ihavenotbeenherebefore_detail_18.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1488" width_o="2000" height_o="1488" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a39ed4b1bd9a50b16cff622d0279088f15ec5cf120d99acfc88cf8f267c8825e/FMR_seeing-is-also-a-movement-01_detail_02_web_2000px.jpg" data-mid="78176160" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a39ed4b1bd9a50b16cff622d0279088f15ec5cf120d99acfc88cf8f267c8825e/FMR_seeing-is-also-a-movement-01_detail_02_web_2000px.jpg" /> Seeing is also a movement_02 https://fernandomromero.com/Seeing-is-also-a-movement_02 Thu, 23 Jul 2020 17:24:40 +0000 Fernando_M_Romero_Artist https://fernandomromero.com/Seeing-is-also-a-movement_02 _Seeing is also a movement_02 <img width="2000" height="2796" width_o="2000" height_o="2796" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/45c18efac7dac8afc958096e75118d6fca696aedf9bd65b11323ee2fcdaae15c/Seeing-is-also-a-movement_03_sliding_painting_02_web_2000px.jpg" data-mid="78176733" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/45c18efac7dac8afc958096e75118d6fca696aedf9bd65b11323ee2fcdaae15c/Seeing-is-also-a-movement_03_sliding_painting_02_web_2000px.jpg" /> 2019 SEEING IS ALSO A MOVEMENT_02&nbsp;/ RCA ( London, UK) Maurice Blanchot´s original fragments and quotes from his book "The Infinite Conversation"&nbsp;act in this project like the sources from which to activate a cascade of unorthodox readings, mistranslations and rewritings of the same information. Online apps and services such as&nbsp;Google Translate&nbsp;or music software are used here in combination with more traditional mediums and languages like&nbsp;Painting&nbsp;or&nbsp;Morse code&nbsp;to "read" and activate the resulting information. The outcoming works raise questions about agency, obsolescence and our ambivalent relationship to the ubiquity of artificial intelligence and machine learning in our daily life. Throughout a polyphony of surfaces and echoes, the works in this show explore many ways of writing, coding, reading and rewriting, examining therefore how we relate to information, communication and attention. Among these works, we find poems "written" by the neuronal network behind Google Translate, music generated through online free apps reading erased pages of books, infinite conversations in Morse code between dead authors and machines. Language, as well as optical media, can both illuminate and obscure, reveal and conceal, as we find today in issues such as social networks, fake news, machine learning and cryptography. These works conceive every translation as a movement between codes, languages and fields. In parallel, they require active movement around the space from the spectator and involvement from the viewer to unfold all the possible readings, resonances and loops. These repeated "translational gestures" highlight that even the most radical form of erasure or translation is nothing but a kind of rewriting from which new grammars might happen to arise. <img width="2000" height="2288" width_o="2000" height_o="2288" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/287bc968ebafe7f0265160a533c8b8e850358f584f66bfe81d85cac68102a7f9/irresponsible_forms_01_web_2000px.jpg" data-mid="78176754" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/287bc968ebafe7f0265160a533c8b8e850358f584f66bfe81d85cac68102a7f9/irresponsible_forms_01_web_2000px.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1833" width_o="2000" height_o="1833" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4a91d4131d77adee2d05a27589d2240896de17fb1023012cc455e20cde5d66a2/Seeing-is-also-a-movement_03_sliding_painting_web_2000px.jpg" data-mid="78176755" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4a91d4131d77adee2d05a27589d2240896de17fb1023012cc455e20cde5d66a2/Seeing-is-also-a-movement_03_sliding_painting_web_2000px.jpg" /> <img width="1694" height="1125" width_o="1694" height_o="1125" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c3ad6a698cc12f247ef168b73226861036ff033f8d51dd17de7606a7e8fcd307/fernandomromero_seeingisalsoamovement_detail_01.jpg" data-mid="78816663" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c3ad6a698cc12f247ef168b73226861036ff033f8d51dd17de7606a7e8fcd307/fernandomromero_seeingisalsoamovement_detail_01.jpg" /> <img width="1800" height="1800" width_o="1800" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/06ee831fa041712f27818fe641439858baa1fcc37954668164ca8d3e549a1127/fernandomromero_seeingisalsoamovement_detail_03.jpg" data-mid="78817198" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/06ee831fa041712f27818fe641439858baa1fcc37954668164ca8d3e549a1127/fernandomromero_seeingisalsoamovement_detail_03.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1330" width_o="2000" height_o="1330" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4bc06452aec9631d706729dc055d6920a30c3a864e4b2a6714e7e11e0d46e0ff/fernandomromero_seeingisalsoamovement_detail_02.jpg" data-mid="78817199" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4bc06452aec9631d706729dc055d6920a30c3a864e4b2a6714e7e11e0d46e0ff/fernandomromero_seeingisalsoamovement_detail_02.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1330" width_o="2000" height_o="1330" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8b984d8d7896a65458aba81ffa52015600714da40316007fbe03cde77d914741/fernandomromero_seeingisalsoamovement_detail_05.jpg" data-mid="78817321" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8b984d8d7896a65458aba81ffa52015600714da40316007fbe03cde77d914741/fernandomromero_seeingisalsoamovement_detail_05.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1330" width_o="2000" height_o="1330" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4e06a6bf75f979be6da17c95b919d7218f03562d9a7832b2330ca757fcbf7468/fernandomromero_seeingisalsoamovement_detail_04.jpg" data-mid="78817197" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4e06a6bf75f979be6da17c95b919d7218f03562d9a7832b2330ca757fcbf7468/fernandomromero_seeingisalsoamovement_detail_04.jpg" /> I have not been here before https://fernandomromero.com/I-have-not-been-here-before Thu, 23 Jul 2020 17:30:03 +0000 Fernando_M_Romero_Artist https://fernandomromero.com/I-have-not-been-here-before _I have not been here before <img width="2000" height="2506" width_o="2000" height_o="2506" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0f33bcb5f67a90c4d65c6282deeb07f3e655aa96c10d1960df7869d541a12f55/I_have_not_been_here_before_01_web_2000px.jpg" data-mid="78176964" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0f33bcb5f67a90c4d65c6282deeb07f3e655aa96c10d1960df7869d541a12f55/I_have_not_been_here_before_01_web_2000px.jpg" /> 2019 I HAVE NOT BEEN HERE BEFORE / RCA ( London, UK) Maurice Blanchot´s original fragments and quotes from his book "The Infinite Conversation"&nbsp;act in this project like the sources from which to activate a cascade of unorthodox readings, mistranslations and rewritings of the same information. Online apps and services such as&nbsp;Google Translate&nbsp;or music software are used here in combination with more traditional mediums and languages like&nbsp;Painting&nbsp;or&nbsp;Morse code&nbsp;to "read" and activate the resulting information. The outcoming works raise questions about agency, obsolescence and our ambivalent relationship to the ubiquity of artificial intelligence and machine learning in our daily life. Throughout a polyphony of surfaces and echoes, the works in this show explore many ways of writing, coding, reading and rewriting, examining therefore how we relate to information, communication and attention. Among these works, we find poems "written" by the neuronal network behind Google Translate, music generated through online free apps reading erased pages of books, infinite conversations in Morse code between dead authors and machines. Language, as well as optical media, can both illuminate and obscure, reveal and conceal, as we find today in issues such as social networks, fake news, machine learning and cryptography. These works conceive every translation as a movement between codes, languages and fields. In parallel, they require active movement around the space from the spectator and involvement from the viewer to unfold all the possible readings, resonances and loops. These repeated "translational gestures" highlight that even the most radical form of erasure or translation is nothing but a kind of rewriting from which new grammars might happen to arise. <img width="2000" height="1386" width_o="2000" height_o="1386" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/06726f217e46e950bc3491b6182616aac82c6d7b821faf7881d8e5439c498559/FMR_light_score_01_web_2000px.jpg" data-mid="78176980" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/06726f217e46e950bc3491b6182616aac82c6d7b821faf7881d8e5439c498559/FMR_light_score_01_web_2000px.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="2306" width_o="2000" height_o="2306" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3c39c3b92700430adb4a9d2c787b86c324f3ac9df14d33384052a421f3c1408b/FMR_light_score_02_web_2000px.jpg" data-mid="78176981" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3c39c3b92700430adb4a9d2c787b86c324f3ac9df14d33384052a421f3c1408b/FMR_light_score_02_web_2000px.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1330" width_o="2000" height_o="1330" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/30a0ea514db401867a469d976f70720711bf0fd363e376368e5b4b7345ce9da3/fernandomromero_ihavenotbeenherebefore_detail_14.jpg" data-mid="78810906" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/30a0ea514db401867a469d976f70720711bf0fd363e376368e5b4b7345ce9da3/fernandomromero_ihavenotbeenherebefore_detail_14.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1330" width_o="2000" height_o="1330" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b5572ea52682cdb3ffb7900854e33c836c522fb273cd9f3868e38391b9d7f469/fernandomromero_ihavenotbeenherebefore_detail_05.jpg" data-mid="78810893" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b5572ea52682cdb3ffb7900854e33c836c522fb273cd9f3868e38391b9d7f469/fernandomromero_ihavenotbeenherebefore_detail_05.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1330" width_o="2000" height_o="1330" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d5b4ecd7fb1646c9c9f5b585c7b9d24e71b4e39660bac66d47a7d32241c80474/fernandomromero_ihavenotbeenherebefore_detail_04.jpg" data-mid="78810892" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d5b4ecd7fb1646c9c9f5b585c7b9d24e71b4e39660bac66d47a7d32241c80474/fernandomromero_ihavenotbeenherebefore_detail_04.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d9a244743f52c28f2d59fd91a892d64da5ea67dde7adee6499852e338a5df09c/fernandomromero_ihavenotbeenherebefore_detail_18.jpg" data-mid="78815344" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d9a244743f52c28f2d59fd91a892d64da5ea67dde7adee6499852e338a5df09c/fernandomromero_ihavenotbeenherebefore_detail_18.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1334" width_o="2000" height_o="1334" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/31fe95a7cfa7c4b2f35b11d33ca1896986fa6f708ac9b653c43a3675cbee9eb9/fernandomromero_ihavenotbeenherebefore_detail_13.jpg" data-mid="78810905" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/31fe95a7cfa7c4b2f35b11d33ca1896986fa6f708ac9b653c43a3675cbee9eb9/fernandomromero_ihavenotbeenherebefore_detail_13.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1304" width_o="2000" height_o="1304" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/16a982c77a61ba895336a41fa01d62cb681f99781047311487e88aa782b1b0a8/fernandomromero_ihavenotbeenherebefore_detail_06.jpg" data-mid="78810895" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/16a982c77a61ba895336a41fa01d62cb681f99781047311487e88aa782b1b0a8/fernandomromero_ihavenotbeenherebefore_detail_06.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="3008" width_o="2000" height_o="3008" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/104ba4e422055e098633eea2f0481407698674cac60c5cbc9004b1655c7d98ac/FMR_light_score_01_detail_web_2000px.jpg" data-mid="78176982" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/104ba4e422055e098633eea2f0481407698674cac60c5cbc9004b1655c7d98ac/FMR_light_score_01_detail_web_2000px.jpg" /> <img width="1800" height="2707" width_o="1800" height_o="2707" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9de626c4e76bdfc14bd683de482c57a242189d6c24f042a249926247a4874f1d/fernandomromero_ihavenotbeenherebefore_detail_09.jpg" data-mid="78810899" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9de626c4e76bdfc14bd683de482c57a242189d6c24f042a249926247a4874f1d/fernandomromero_ihavenotbeenherebefore_detail_09.jpg" /> Irresponsible forms_01 https://fernandomromero.com/Irresponsible-forms_01 Fri, 31 Jul 2020 17:23:10 +0000 Fernando_M_Romero_Artist https://fernandomromero.com/Irresponsible-forms_01 _Irresponsible forms_01 2019 IRRESPONSIBLE FORMS_01 / RCA ( London, UK) This piece of music, titled “Irresponsible form_01”, is the result of using an erased page of a book as a notation to feed a music software online. The erased text was originally a printed page from the book “The responsibility of forms: critical essays on music, art, and representation”, by Roland Barthes (1985). All the words and content in that page has been erased except for the punctuation marks and the title, which remain as the only visible marks left on the blank page.The resulting audio recording captures, therefore, the husk of (Barthes) writing, after all its content has been obliterated and then read with a free music software online as sound. London, 14 June 2019. <img width="1694" height="1125" width_o="1694" height_o="1125" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a881745b93997765325219941dcf1c0b7ee72bb8b3d6c31adc8dd2329d0b10a0/fernandomromero_seeingisalsoamovement_detail_01.jpg" data-mid="78819767" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a881745b93997765325219941dcf1c0b7ee72bb8b3d6c31adc8dd2329d0b10a0/fernandomromero_seeingisalsoamovement_detail_01.jpg" />