Contemporary visual practices propose a continuous, holistic conceptual transformation where texts, representations and constructions compose a single/divided field of reflection. The work of art is interpreted as a process, thus attempting to refute the established view of the world. Memory, experience, reference and “finding” are the dynamic archives that build the expressive tools and perceptual mechanisms for the constitution of both the representational space and the plastic construction. The narrativity of materials/techniques and the construction systems that govern them constitute the multi-layered conceptual site of contemporary art. The visual arts course, through texts/references, and through the multiple media and materials of art (drawing, paint, photography, archives, models, constructions, etc.), explores:
– The practices and methods that condense complex narrative structures to produce particular spatial qualities.
– The formulation of the transcendental/imaginary world of ideas, through the artefactual construction.
– The tools of transition from the self, (self-reference), to the external world.
– The heretical uses and applications of techniques and materials as additional narrative elements of construction.