The Afterimage
Italy
2020
The installation “The Afterimage” presents a journey through images with the confrontation of two types of archives. The first is made up of thousands of personal slides that Chiara Caterina collected and accumulated for over a decade. The second is a huge amount of collective information gathered from internet research (images, texts, sounds, videos).
These two databases are brought together in a dialogue, inviting the viewer to ponder the power of reminiscence of images and the possible shifts in interpretation they can be subject to when immersed in the greatest public digital archive in the world. This is about an exchange between man and machine: an algorithm designed to recognised and analyse old and lost images suggests various ways of reclaiming them. A new life becomes possible among the many ever-changing worlds of the web.
With the support of Istituto Italiano di Cultura
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About the artist
Born in 1983, Chiara Caterina is a film director and artist. Following her film studies at the university of Rome, she was a post-graduate at the Fresnoy (National Contemporary Arts Studio). Her short film “Avant la nuit” and her documentary “Il mondo o niente” were presented and selected at many international festivals.