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Every image in the Alterlibrary collection is intended as a quote, an excerpt of a larger discourse. But every image also stands as a matter that could undergo a series of operations and alterations. Therefore, images are renewable sources.
Operations: Extraction and Collection. Image alteration: none.
This is an original image from the long-term documentary archive Ius Soli, which explores the archaeology of the present in the Mount Vesuvius Red Zone. The so-called Red Zone encompasses 25 municipalities and could potentially transform into a vast archaeological site in the event of an eruption. The image is a digital file printed on transparent plexiglass.
Tessuto non tessuto is a black fabric used in archaeology to demarcate and protect archaeological ruins after excavation for preventive purposes. The particular tessuto non tessuto in this photograph punctuates the soils of Mount Vesuvius’s so-called Red Zone, around the towns of the inland cities home to small clothing industries. Dumps of manufacturing remains are illegally left all over the soil to avoid the normal waste treatment process. The stratification of industrial waste treatment issues is depicted in its first layer.
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- But who really owns land and nature? Humans have no more self-evident rights than grass, trees, and squirrels, not to speak of fungi and bacteria. Property, the conceit that state-backed human social relations give us absolute rights over things, does not go far in the realms of land and nature, wh …
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Jone Kvie, Here, here VI
Every image in the Alterlibrary collection is intended as a quote, an excerpt of a larger discourse. But every image also stands as a matter that could undergo a series of operations and alterations. Therefore, images are renewable sources.
Operations: Extraction (photograph of a photograph printed on a catalogue) and Collection.
Image alteration: Texturing. The original image came from a printed catalogue, where it was first photographed and converted into a digital file. That digital file was then processed using a program developed by a graphic designer called Texturing, designed to extract textures from an image and generate new “visual material.” In effect, what began as a photographic source is turned into a sort of graphical fabric that can be reused for other creative purposes. This amounts to a recycling of the original visual “matter,” transforming it into a different kind of resource suitable for further design processes.
Jone Kvie's original sculptural piece combines natural materials that bear silent witness to geological and biological processes. Volcanic tuff-rock, lichens, moss, pine needles, and iron converge into a single form, suggesting a dialogue between organic growth and the elemental forces shaping our landscapes. The main structure of the sculpture is a volcanic rock collected by the artist and temporarily displaced in an exhibition space during Documenta Kassel 2022.
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