Quayola, “Strata”

from REFF, RomaEuropa FakeFactory

Street art disciplines show how it is possible to act on urban spaces to activate expressive and riappropriation processes. The aesthetic and performative actions that transform walls into the object of the marvelled gaze of the passerbys and elements of urban furniture into the places for the spectacular acrobatics of skateboarders are precise interventions in the flow of daily life that can create imaginaries, doubts and variations in that which is too often perceived as "given reality".
Quayola takes this kind of intervention to classical arts, algorithmically augmenting its possibilities: perspectives run away, drawing becomes the texture for new opportunities for expression, aesthetics become new aesthetics in which classical vision, renaissance perspective and the shape of the object of the interventio radically shift in direction, multiplying, disassembling, becoming other.
From te author:
"The term Strata defines a geological formation made of multiple layers of rock. Each one of these layers has its own individual characteristics and history, which combined produce beautiful and unique formations…
The Strata project consist in a series of films, prints and installations investigating improbable relationships between contemporary digital aesthetics and icons of classical art and architecture. Like in geological processes, layers belonging to different ages interact with one another producing new intriguing formations."

Strata 1

Strata 2

Strata 3