ISABEL PÉREZ DEL PULGAR

ISABEL PÉREZ DEL PULGAR

(Espanha – Spain | França - France)

ISABEL PÉREZ DEL PULGAR Born in Granada (Spain) and resident in France since 2015. Degree in Geography and History with a specialisation in Art from the University of Granada. In the mid-2000s, she adopted video as a means of creation, expression and experimentation. Video as a plastic vehicle where movement, sound and pictorial vision come together. At the same time, performance art became increasingly important as a medium of work. The body as the protagonist and narrative driver. Architecture of tense physicality in space-time.

Her work as an artist in the fields of painting, photography, and especially video art has been the subject of numerous international exhibitions and shows.

SUEÑO DE UN ANDROIDE

DIGITAL ART

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Artistic Direction: Isabel Pérez Del Pulgar

Digital Production: Isabel Pérez Del Pulgar

Digital art format: square (116 x 116 cm)

Year: 2023-2025

Synopsis

There are problematic contemporary debates surrounding the significance of free will: the ability to make decisions and carry them out with a certain degree of control. The real existence of this control to decide autonomously and individually is questioned, as this ability depends on learning and socialisation. Do we choose based on desires and beliefs that already exist or have been imposed, conditioned by cognitive, situational, contextual, emotional, genetic, cultural factors... therefore, do we really act according to our motives, desires and beliefs, are we spectators or arbiters of our own lives, or players doing what we can?

The difference between a human and an android is that the latter is a machine lacking and incapable of consciousness and free will. It is created with specific functions for a particular activity. But isn't there an instrumentalisation and indoctrination of human beings to act, produce and consume within a particular socio-political framework? Wouldn't the awareness of one's own reality and freedom to decide be a simulation, and therefore wouldn't an android be the simulation of a simulation? Are we not faced with the image of a human who sounds like an android or an android who sounds like a human?

Apoiado - Supported

Parceiros de Meios - Media Partners