Image/Method: Fernando Marante
[Rendering phenomena as notation]

Meeting the World through the artist—entry points

1. Could you briefly describe the conceptual process you follow in your work?

Each project originates from a hypothesis that investigates how different materials respond visually when subjected to an intervention, most often involving movement. The process is inherently performative. The work seeks to examine mechanisms of transformation and to develop a vocabulary of differences and similarities emerging from these processes. Within this framework, the resulting images can be understood less as final outcomes and more as side effects of the investigative process.

2. Is there a dynamic movement/shape/pattern or even rhythm that you are more drawn to in your visual thinking while working? *

Abstraction plays a central role, stemming from a desire to organize the visual expressions of the process into fundamental elements, lines and points, that relate to one another not only spatially but also temporally. This approach is strongly informed by the language of musical composition. From a formal perspective, the intervals between these expressions of the process, understood as spaces of comparison, become more significant than the images themselves.

3. Has the image(s) you have chosen here to share shifted your understanding or tapped into an area that was unknown to you? And if so, could you loosely link an idea with an imagistic aspect?

My body of work pursues a demanding objective: to translate the manifestation of phenomena in the world into a visual language that is schematic in nature. To illustrate this approach, one might consider the electrocardiogram, which converts the rhythms of the heart into a form of text. The first image is my own and represents a tentative approximation of this aim; the second is drawn from one of the many sources that inspire the work.