From digital glitches to mind-bending distortions, Mexico Metropolis-based artist Alexis Mata is taken with how visible data will get misplaced or skewed because it shifts from one context to a different. In his oil work, bouquets and huge desert landscapes unfold throughout the canvas as if melting or stretching into unrecognizable kinds. “When your eyes look too long at the same thing, your mind makes the change,” he shares.
Mata excavates the connection between analog and digital realms, and his course of incorporates each modes of artmaking. Preliminary sketches fill notebooks that journey all over the place the artist does, whereas he regularly snaps images and information video as references.
AI experiments assist Mata higher translate the unusual, disorienting outcomes that these quickly evolving instruments can produce. However his analysis isn’t simply visible. “I enjoy experimenting by writing poems or haikus in AI and seeing what emerges. It’s an exploratory process,” he notes.
Rendered in daring coloration palettes, the trippy work draw connections between digital mishaps and the methods our brains warp a picture, whether or not in moments of intense focus, dream states, or with the assistance of hallucinatory substances. “I like to think that entire worlds are created within dreams, and these worlds ask to be brought into the light,” he says.
Most of the work proven listed below are on view in Fata Morgana via January 25 at The Gap in Tribeca. Discover extra of Mata’s work, which spans stained glass and textiles to drawing and sculpture, on his web site and Instagram.
