Ghost

They [Black Paintings] are current because in the evolution of Goya’s work and its appreciation, right now they are the ones that best express our contemporaneity: fragmentation, bewilderment, insecurity, aggressiveness, sadness and melancholy. –Jesusa Vega, in a feature in ABC, 2019

Francisco de Goya’s painting Saturn, made circa 1820, is widely interpreted as depicting the myth of Saturn devouring his children to prevent his prophesied dethronement. In this work, Goya’s artwork is reconstructed out of Cassini raw images of Saturn. The work playfully confronts two ‘Saturns,’ merging two sources from vastly different contexts—one mythological and artistic, the other empirical and scientific—offering a mischievous commentary on the shifting meanings of Saturn. Using an reiteration and an aesthetics of low-resolution to also reflect on the afterlife of images—whether they are artistic creations or scientific data. This work developed as part of Uncalibrated, my PhD practice-led research. The Cassini raw images are public and can be found here.

Ghost is an installation with print on textile, animation on flat monitor (silent, looped), 2022