Untitled (Ways of Seeing - My Art Collection) Photograph - Limited Edition of 20

This photograph is part of an installation of more than 300 photographs. You can see the show here: https://vimeo.com/flordavalle Every artwork is a representation of something that already exists in the world or something that exists in the artist's mind. At the same time, “art lives through influencing other art”, said Joseph Kosuth. In the book from which the inspiration for the title of this show was gotten, John Berger says that “what we know and what we believe affects the way we see things”. How would it be, otherwise, to see art without preconceptions? "Ways of seeing - My art collection" is an installation that puts into tension the ideas of the value of art, the art institution, authorship, aura and the diverse roles of the artist (as producer, curator, collector). The project presented is a collection of abstract photographs that were taken with my professional camera over four years. These photos were taken from works by renowned artists from various nationalities exhibited in museums all around the world. The abstract photographs exhibited here generated a magical act: a work of art that already existed was transmuted into a new one, which left some visual traces of that first essence. The originals were blurred by the photographic medium to become abstractions in a new discursive context. These abstractions challenge the viewer to decode them in their own way, maybe by looking up for the reference from which they were born or by finding something unexpected. During the observation process, the visitor will be able to play to reveal the different layers of art history that lie behind each one, but without the obligation to follow a linear, hegemonic, or academic time, but with the possibility to find unknown connections between the artworks and perhaps new art histories to tell.