Mara Palena, Things that happen inside and outside me

Things that happen inside and outside me

Mara Palena

Publisher
Artphilein Editions
Year
2025
ISBN
9791280830401
Specifications
Softcover
18 x 21.5 cm
144 pages
Paper: Arena Eco 50, Colorplan Lavander, Spicy Fluo Zenzero
Edition of 300 copies
English
Text by Matilde Scaramellini, Mara Palena
Design: Camilla Marrese

Conscious and unconscious, present, transfer and recollection, blend into the existential fragments combined by Mara Palena within her projects, based on different self-investigation methods. From psychoanalysis, to sound therapy, to EMDR, the experience of the artist returns in the form of her very personal elaboration. Such an intimate sphere, however, opens up to the collective by devising immersive scenarios that empathetically welcome the observer to a large, potentially infinite mnemonic archive — with the use of AI, too. All the archive material comes from the public collection of the Archive of the Prelinger Library, San Francisco. The work showcases a series of digital collages of technical images generated by artificial intelligence fed with screenshots of archive footage on the cultural history of the United States.

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