A
Slow Walk with Marco Maggi
A
conversation with Sheila Yoshpe
How
would you define your work?
I
am a slow artist who does tiny things and insignificant signs. Understanding
less is my profession. Understanding less and less each day demands
rigorous training. Not understanding is basic and very healthy.
When we do not understand, we doubt, we feel insecure. We reduce
the speed of our decisions. We expand our attention, and we are
subtle and very cautious. When we have no doubt, when we are accompanied
by faith and its certainties, we become a danger to the public,
capable of making urgent an radical decisions. In art and in cars,
speed is tragic.
Drawing
demands complying with one road sign only: STOP.
I
construct precise confusion for it to be viewed without the least
expectation of being informed. It is micro confusion that attempts
to stimulate our fragile love of the insignificant: texts or textures?
We are familiar with the DNA structure, but we cannot remember the
genome’s alphabet. We are not capable of reading a hair despite
knowing it has sufficient information to clone our best friend.
I
have only one question for you. Is the inability to relate to this
type of information blindness or should it be described as a new
form of illiteracy?
In
both cases, the most advisable thing to do is to patiently resign
ourselves to the fact that we are doomed to knowing more and understanding
less-victims of semiotic indigestion. Every day we watch the news
on CNN without noticing the difference between a live transmission
and death...
CONTINUE...
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