C-5 - Digital Photography 24'' x 31.5'' The Barcelona photographer, GISART, creates digital collages that resemble innovative visual encyclopedias. They simultaneously convey the irrepressible energy of improvisation and the powerful sense of picking up some essential thread running through every sector of our globalized society. Yet for all the disparate imagery GISART pulls together, the various elements are so smoothly integrated that the effect rarely overwhelms. Gently overlapping or flowing calmly into one another, his assembled images achieve a surprising degree of coherence and legibility despite being packed into densely coalesced groups. His free-associative collages ask viewers to draw connections and causality between the elements he puts into play. Somewhere in these collections of images, a clearer picture of our visual culture comes into focus. Tying together contemporary news footage, art history, early photojournalism, modern art, advertising, pop culture and discarded everyday photography, GISART’s mode of connecting images varies wildly. In some cases contiguous pictures are thematically related, elsewhere their subjects are tangential while they resemble one another aesthetically, still in other places it’s the very familiarity of the given images that forms their relation. Unpacking GISART’s collages, viewers can go in any direction and find multiple connections, creating patterns in the visual cacophony of our hyper-mediated world. His works offer new ways of thinking about and seeing the visual landscape we inhabit.

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