Nicolás Lamas
Losing the human form, 2022
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle paper, non-reflective museums glass and MDF
116 x 74 cm
45 5/8 x 29 1/8 inches
45 5/8 x 29 1/8 inches
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Photo: Dirk Tacke
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In this work, Nicolás Lamas combines a sewing pattern from Burda magazine with an inverted and fragmented image of a classical Venus to explore the tensions between body, technique, and...
In this work, Nicolás Lamas combines a sewing pattern from Burda magazine with an inverted and fragmented image of a classical Venus to explore the tensions between body, technique, and system. The industrial diagrams, originally conceived to reproduce standardized human forms, are transformed here into a chaotic network that alludes to the fragmentation and multiplicity of the contemporary body. The inversion of the sculpture deactivates its idealized charge, turning it into an ambiguous mass reinserted within a context of codes and measurements. Through this superposition, Lamas problematizes the relationship between technical knowledge, materiality, and representation, proposing a reading of the body as an assemblage of parts – an unstable system in which the biological, the cultural, and the artificial intertwine. The work thus aligns with his ongoing investigation into the interdependence between objects, organisms, and structures of information, revealing how mechanisms of standardization and production also give rise to new forms of entropy, disorder, and material reconfiguration.