Intro
Essay
Lost Negative / Marlo Pascual
KALEIDOSCOPE Feb–March 2010
Quote:
"The work of art in the age of digital reproduction faces more challenges than ever before. It is obvious that a re-evaluation of imagery is under way, no matter whether its sources are from pre-mechanical, mechanical, or post-mechanical era of reproduction. Ultimately, all images float on the Internet, craving attention. Most of the photographic images that Pascual uses in her work are based on lost negatives; therefore, they no longer can be mechanically reproduced. (...) Walter Benjamin once described the parasitical dependance of works of art on rituals. Marlo Pascual recreates a rite of passage for each photograph she uses, leading it into the parallel universe of digitalization. (...) The sculptures become a site of convergence for the past and the presence, the mechanical and the digital, fiction and reality, and drama and banality–a place where the subjects play out ambigous narratives with psychological and melancholic resonances."
