2019.11 Color Theory
Color Theory is a performative geodesic multidisciplinary art project using one of the most fragile forces of the universe, gravity, as a visual representation of the gradient colors of a new form of “Liquid Modernity,” which according to sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, is embodied by undesirable “vagabonds” or refugees, the weakest social segment in today’s world.
In a time in history where global traumas and lawful lawlessness are highly mediatized, the omnipresence of screens and a certain degree of compulsive engagement in rewarding manipulated full color “realities” have anchored the foreigner into the sphere of collective cultural, racial and ideological fear. Forced out of their own public space by chaos and war, the already traumatized refugee is pushed to the invisible boundaries of the city and forced into further social and psychological withdrawal.
Color Theory mathematically decomposes SMPTE color bars to metaphorically adjust the saturation, chrominance and luminance of today’s Liquid Modernity. It questions our perception of a screened reality where just like free-falling liquid color traces a straight line, the foreigner traces the shortest path between otherness and social stigmatization.
David Gil
David Gil is a pluridisciplinary artist questioning the vanishing intersections between artistic mediums of expression and displaying a preoccupation with our perception of reality. His practice starts in 2005 in France, when he surrounded himself with a solid network of talented artists and launched a series of multidisciplinary and collaborative creative projects. The same year, he receives two awards during the XXth International Festival of Hyeres in France. One year later, the French Ministry of Culture and Communication gives him Carte Blanche for an installation in the windows of the Palais Royal in Paris. Follow a series of other experimental art projects, commissions and collective exhibitions in France, England, the United States and Japan. With a polyvalent, trilingual, multicultural vision, his expertise is at the service of contemporary complexity. His passion is to implement transdisciplinary strategies at city or brand scales. His drive, community/consumer engagement through aesthetics, legitimacy and art. Today, David is pursuing his interests in Art Design and Public Domain in the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.
