Collections from the Foreign

The fetishism of image collecting. From all eras and formats. Finding them, safeguarding them, ordering them, playing with them, even recreating them. The fascination with understanding them, in order to find meaning in them, if such meaning exists. In recent years, the Pastinaca Videotapes Plantation collective has brought to light a fertile and mysterious archive of home VHS tapes, of which TEN Tapes offers ten, perhaps randomly selected, examples. Lincoln Pericles Jr delves into the representation of social margins in his country by presenting in Filme dos outros a series of clips from stolen mobile phones, in order to understand what ordinary citizens film. Lluís Galter plays with the imposture of stock image packages to compose an entertaining re-reading of their commercial uses through a peculiar soap opera entitled Ohio Sonata. In Abyss, Jeppe Lange presents a rapid and extraordinary correlation of more than 10,000 images where the associations have not been generated by a human being but by the intelligence of search engines.

Miquel Martí Freixas