A Solimán López You can apply what “no one is a prophet in their land,” simply because “sometimes,” he says, “My land does not exist”. His ecosystem goes further; It moves between “New Media” art, ecology and digital activism.
It has passed through the center of Carmen de Valencia, Ivam, Ars Santa Monica de Barcelona, the Madrid slaughterhouse, Cac (Málaga), Ceart (Fuenlabrada), the tobacco of Alicante or the CAB (Burgos) … however, His relationship with Spanish galleries, he says, “has been quite strange”. His international visibility and his national tour have not granted him, so far, the opportunity “to work closely with a gallery owner in a common project adapted to the collector’s public.”
For Solimán López, the future of art will be conceptual or will not be
States that “the visibility of art, science and technology projects has been reduced to a very specific area” and that still strong row to break the “rejection” in contemporary art circuits. “It could be said that There is fear of accessing this type of works”.
Despite feeling that “distance” and “misunderstanding”, López does have achieved with her projects “a great social response”, in addition to having been “valued for their innovation.” His is another return to what they have sold us as “art” for centuries and generations: A glacier to preserve the legacy of humanity, a volcano with the solution to space garbage or the legal recognition of the environmental DNA to guarantee its conservation.
The artist Look for unlikely relationships between art, science, technology and philosophy And, when he achieves it, “categories and cultural constructions jump through the air,” he explained on the occasion of his presence in Siroco Artlabwhere it has presented the strength of this whole biodigital ecosystem with which it fights for “Do not fall into the loss of values”.
The artist “New Media” and ecoactivist shared his projects in the Arctic, the Andes and the Amazon in A new space, in Madrid, in which the physical world and the digital world merge to multiply the creative possibilities of art and cultural industries.
In an era “more and more mediated by machines and task automation,” he says, “The intellect, conceptualization and global consciousness are basic elements to understand the future and respect humanity as an organic entity”.
Its motto is clear: “Technology without consciousness becomes a weapon; with consciousness, it becomes art”says who lives “obsessed” to understand the technological structures and their specific languages to extract poetry from them.
In his opinion, “in the history of art different reasons have been recurrently explored, approached with various aesthetic and technical. With the emergence of new technologies, especially those linked to communication and creation, a new landscape has emerged that deserves to be interrogateddissected in layers and critically analyzed. ”
An infinite inspiration
And it is in that new technological atmosphere that Solimán López is willing to investigate: “Inspiration is infinitesince evolution occurs in real time, so conceptual and creative possibilities are enormous. ”
The digital art of this creator is inseparable from its social impact. “Let’s say that There is a scientific process behind production Of my works, ”says who starts the engines of his works with the intention of“ identifying a challenge for our society and humanity ”.
At the moment in which this challenge has been conceptually analyzed and approached from the conjunction “Art-science-technology” It is when “the work crystallizes”: then uses all means at its disposal to represent it and “bring that conception to society.” It is the point where “more digital, interactive, audiovisual and installation elements enter.”
“Technology is appropriating representation techniques”
But that search for social impact “is not simply an added layer”, but “A motivation in itself ”, defends a Lopez who considers that Art “has a fundamental change of change for society and that extol our most important values. It would be a shame to lose that opportunity creating irrelevant works for the common good. ”
For years that the artist has hugged artificial intelligence and biotechnology and that is why he warns about the “passive look” that, sometimes, adopts society: “It is very dangerous to the evolution of new technologies. We must empower ourselves and assume a role of ‘owners’ Regarding the most disruptive technologies, since they represent the human group and their shared information in the digital macrosystem ”.
For Solimán López, the future of art will be conceptual or will not be because “Technology is appropriating representation techniques”. How to avoid it? He asks: “I think it is practically impossible, and that what we have to do is understand that technology is a magnificent ally to extend the wings of human creation.”
