Plane of Action
On view through February 19, 2023
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (BMoCA)
Boulder, Colorado
www.bmoca.org
“Plane of Action” explores how Kevin Hoth and George P. Perez glitch, deconstruct, and rebuild machine- and hand-altered photographs. The two artists distort the legibility of imagery sourced from personal collections, archives, and social media through acts of weaving, cutting, collage, and even burning. These interventions cause the original pictures to lose most of their clarity and undergo an aesthetic reconstruction. By compressing constant streams of analog and digital imagery into single planes, the artists create compositions that are saturated with action and tension to such a degree that these elements become white noise. The artworks evolve to resemble degraded digital distortions or freeze-frames on momentary glitches. Each artist negotiates balances between the slow, methodical processes of weaving and collaging and the aesthetics of new media and fast technology.
[Image: George P. Perez, Overlap and an in between (detail), 2022. C-prints- tape, 35 1/2 x 47 3/4. Courtesy of the Artist.]
