Sikka Ingentium - Daniel Canogar

Daniel Canogar presents a video-installation with which he reflects on culture, the media we use to store information and their survival in today's society.

DANIEL CANOGAR

Daniel Canogar (Madrid, 1964) received a master's degree with a specialization in photography from New York University and the International Center for Photography in 1990. He has made several works in public spaces, including Waves, permanently installed in the atrium of the Houston Center in Houston; Travesías, made for the atrium of the Council of the European Union in Brussels and Constelaciones, the largest photographic mosaic in Europe in the Madrid Rio Park.

His latest projects include Storming Times Square, a video intervention on 47 of the screens in Times Square. His work has been exhibited at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Palacio de Velázquez, Madrid; Bitforms Gallery, Museum of Natural History, New York; Andy Warhol Museum and Mattress Factory Museum; Pittsburgh, among others.

SIKKA INGENTIUM

Sikka Ingentium is a sculptural installation composed of 2,400 DVDs containing films from all over the world: not only Hollywood, but also other very powerful industries such as Hong Kong, India (Bollywood) or Nigeria (Nollywood), as well as others that are numerically less important. With this material, Canogar creates an enormous installation, which forms a sort of floating cloud that shows the reflective face of the DVDs. From the other side of the room, the contents of the DVDs themselves are projected, thus becoming a screen that receives the information they store. The result is an installation formed by waste materials, which upon receiving the projection are activated and become a surface of moving colors and shapes that expand around the room in the form of reflections. A sensory experience that is completed with a sound composition, made by Alexander MacSween in collaboration with the artistam, based on fragments of the band of the films themselves and marks the rhythm of the projection.

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