UlISES URRA (GEB. 1972). PAREIDOLIA

Ulises Urra (b.1972) lives and works in Cuba and Belgium. He was born in Havana, where he studied and graduated as an artist at the Superior Institute of Art. He just finished writing his doctoral dissertation onthe influence of avant-garde collage on contemporary art at the Free University of Brussels.

"My work deals with the storage, mix, combination and reorganisation of archives. By means of these deconstruction and reconstruction processes I seek to re-create my/our memories, combining photographic printings, drawings, objects and film projections, often displayed in little or large scale installations.

I used to utilise collage as a metaphorical representation of our present day world that I perceive as a controversial space, hodgepodge of juxtaposed harmonies and conflicts. Whereas the storage, circulation, distribution and exchange of sound and visual information play an important as well as positive role in the time of the Internet, the more and more fragile borderline between the virtual and the real seems to be a sentence cut and pasted from the script of a pessimistic (ongoing) theatre peace entitled The Society of the Spectacle for which we are, simultaneously, actors and audience. In my current artistic project,

I am making an assembly of my everyday experiences, aiming to have them take the form of a time-based sound/musical sculpture. With the assistance of a sound engineer and a musician, I will transform into time based language the events that have had a physical and spatial impact for me during my stay in Finland".