Fading Fields 7

2014 - Sculpture (Sculpture)

187 x 143 x 40 cm

Elena Damiani

location: Copenhagen, Denmark
location: Lima, Peru
year born: 1972
gender: female
nationality: Peruvian
home town: Peru

In Fading Fields 7 by Elena Damiani, the unstable transparency of the print on silk chiffon is relative to the light and the viewer’s position, varying continually as one moves around the work. As apparitions or ghosts, the images portrayed appear or vanish in the space as faded recollections of a distant landscape. These impressions appear as oscillatory surfaces that fluctuate between presence and absence; they are contingent objects that shift as a result of their environment. The totality of the image continuously fuses with the space and background. As a result, Fading Fields 7 functions as a constant reminder that it is only through the eyes of the present that we can catch a glimpse of the past and that both the virtual and physical realms merge constantly in the act of remembrance.


Transforming found materials into collages, sculptures, videos, and installations, Elena Damiani critically addresses our understanding of the present by harnessing the potential of images from the past. She is interested in revising subjects such as geology, archaeology, and cartography. By reworking materials such as books, photographs, video footage, and public records, Damiani stages fictions where multiple topographies and times unfold, hovering between an indeterminate past and present. She aims to explore the ways in which specific materials can be presented as incomplete and ambiguous when extracted from their contexts, then recomposed into artworks that emphasize the mutability of cultural objects and information, thereby forming new memory paths and connections.


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