Artesanal Big Data

The artist Laura Zuccaro uses traditional Catalan fabric (mocador de farcell) in the work Artesanal Big Data as a metaphor for a vast network of ancestral memory sustained through artisanal technology.

Originally, the mocador de farcell held great cultural and historical value and was used for centuries to carry food and belongings or as a storage system. For Laura, the fabric on which she paints functions as a great switchboard of human memory, bringing together infinite codes from a minimal unit: in this case, an analog pixel.

100 × 100 cm.