Raphael Soldi, "When solutions are available, they will appear here" from Erroneously Handled Object, 2021. Courtesy of the artist.
Raphael Soldi, "When solutions are available, they will appear here" from Erroneously Handled Object, 2021. Courtesy of the artist.
Rafael Soldi
Project—
This work considers the moment when computer-generated messages and
alerts fail their main function by unwittingly taking on a poetic, prophetic, or
socio-critical role. I'm interested in how a language that was written by humans
in the early ages of computer information has grown to mirror the world
around us, using charged words—access, privilege, windows, hierarchy, binary,
native, memory, integrity—to carry out objective tasks within an system of
zeroes and ones. What happens when we encounter these messages out of
context? How can they make us reconsider the world around us?
Artist Bio—
Rafael Soldi is a Peruvian-born, Seattle-based artist and curator. His practice centers on how queerness and masculinity intersect with larger topics of our time, such as immigration, memory, and loss. He has exhibited internationally at the Frye Art Museum, American University Museum, Griffin Museum of Photography, ClampArt, The Print Center, Museo MATE, Filter Space, and Burrard Arts Foundation, among others. He is co-curator of the High Wall, a yearly outdoor video projection program that invites immigrant artists and artists working on themes of diaspora and borderlands to intervene the facade of a former immigration center building in the heart of Seattle.
