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Midi à Paris
2008
Angela & Rafael DETANICO / LAIN
Photography
60 x 70 cm
The artists are convinced that there is an intersection in action between signs and sense, and "Midi à Paris" is a unique and fascinating work that goes beyond mankind and our understanding of the world.
Detanico and Lain subtly distort codes by drawing on the relationship between the letters of the alphabet and the time zones identified by the navigator and mathematician Nathaniel Bowditch. Each time zone is assigned a letter of the alphabet (except one, the letter J), thereby creating a new system of writing derived from the cartographic format and producing a new geography. The viewer is invited to take part in a game of interpretation, producing several levels of understanding, exploring the notion of time and its spatial representation.
The new geography attempts to provide a poetic and trivial reflection of unprecedented challenges as perceived and interpreted by the artists, such as globalisation.
Detanico and Lain subtly distort codes by drawing on the relationship between the letters of the alphabet and the time zones identified by the navigator and mathematician Nathaniel Bowditch. Each time zone is assigned a letter of the alphabet (except one, the letter J), thereby creating a new system of writing derived from the cartographic format and producing a new geography. The viewer is invited to take part in a game of interpretation, producing several levels of understanding, exploring the notion of time and its spatial representation.
The new geography attempts to provide a poetic and trivial reflection of unprecedented challenges as perceived and interpreted by the artists, such as globalisation.
Angela & Rafael DETANICO / LAIN
Born in 1974
Angela Detanico Date of birth: 1974
Rafael Lain Date of birth: 1973.
For nearly 20 years, the Brazilian artists Angela Detanico and Rafael Lain have made their mark on the international artistic scene at the interstice of design, communication and fine arts. Shifting between poetry, semiotics and graphic arts, their talent moves between the different conventional means of representing what surrounds us, revealing language as an instrument for understanding and reflecting different cultures.
Rafael Lain Date of birth: 1973.
For nearly 20 years, the Brazilian artists Angela Detanico and Rafael Lain have made their mark on the international artistic scene at the interstice of design, communication and fine arts. Shifting between poetry, semiotics and graphic arts, their talent moves between the different conventional means of representing what surrounds us, revealing language as an instrument for understanding and reflecting different cultures.
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Angela & Rafael DETANICO / LAIN
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