Opus 8PM

Unique artwork. Work created at Mothership and Kunstraum artistic residency in New York. It was exhibited in a solo exhibition, NOISE at the SkyBox space in New York.

The “NOISE” series of works takes as its starting point the concept of “noise” - which is a constant presence in New York. The series was developed in this city in two artistic residencies: Kunstraum and Mothership. ‘Noise’ has a broad meaning, but is here taken as a transmitter of information portrayed in the city (Peter Krapp, Noise Channels: Glitch and Error in Digital Culture, 2011). It can be seen as an excess of information. This information is imposed by a perception we create of the space, and the amount of data we collect. It can be revealed in various formats, such as the sound of cars passing on viaducts, the sound of the subway, air conditioning, and visually in the construction of bridges, scaffolding, in the pattern made up of countless windows, bricks on facades or in smoke coming out of the ventilation ducts.

The elements used in the works were collected in Brooklyn and Manhattan, where there is always something going on. The overlapping of patterns and elements takes us back to the natural and geological world and redirects the work to a time between the slow geological creation and the accelerated pace of human existence, particularly in the digital presence. It takes millions of years for a rock to form as opposed to just one moment for a glitch to appear (Rosa Menkman, Glitch Manifesto, 2010). The metaphorical and at the same time antagonistic relationship between Nature and the technological world is very important in the work of Luísa Ramires.NOISE In the installation A Daily Beat you can observe different combinations of colors and patterns that relate to the hours of the day. Each work is called ‘Opus’, the Latin word for work, which refers to a musical composition.