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A desk is lit with the cast of morning’s earliest light, pens and papers spread across the table, the surface barely visible. Visual references are placed just beside, physiques ready for rendering. With the genre of still life dating back at least to the 16th century, the romantic image of an artist diligently capturing classical forms is a well-known archetype within western art history. What is most provocative about this practice here and now is the act of holding still; in our contemporary post-internet temporalities, what is the significance of capturing subjects in an exact moment in time? In this moment where the so-called authenticity of both artworks and objects are increasingly at risk of degradation by way of virtual proliferation and machine learning extrapolation, where then exists the sacredness of stillness?
These new virtual technologies and their effects have not been without precedent. The transforming economies throughout the late 19th and 20th centuries led artists…
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A desk is lit with the cast of morning’s earliest light, pens and papers spread across the table, the surface barely visible. Visual references are placed just beside, physiques ready for rendering. With the genre of still life dating back at least to the 16th century, the romantic image of an artist diligently capturing classical forms is a well-known archetype within western art history. What is most provocative about this practice here and now is the act of holding still; in our contemporary post-internet temporalities, what is the significance of capturing subjects in an exact moment in time? In this moment where the so-called authenticity of both artworks and objects are increasingly at risk of degradation by way of virtual proliferation and machine learning extrapolation, where then exists the sacredness of stillness?
These new virtual technologies and their effects have not been without precedent. The transforming economies throughout the late 19th and 20th centuries led artists…
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