Missing Files / 2012 – 2013

In the “Missing Files” series, the artist uses leftovers from her own digital production. Old video project files, corrupted by copying them too often, become the foundation for new paintings, objects, and video installations. The video software replaces missing files with “screen mates. The previously composed animations and cuts stay intact.

“The noise in Marcelina Wellmer’s works is audiovisual, particularly in the series Missing Files (2011-2013), which consists of screens with digital images and painted canvases. This work is inspired by the incompatibility of files caused by numerous copying operations within a computer. The illegible remnants of audiovisual projects are revealed and processed, so that the categories change completely: both the paintings and the digital images lose their functionality and acquire different characteristics. The processing of rejected and damaged components is a strategy of cultural garbology, based on the reuse of the content of digital rubbish. As a result of the use of redundant data, both digital images and regular paintings are remediated and shifted into a new aesthetic dimension”.

Text: E. Wojtowicz PhD, Academy of Fine Arts Poznan, Poland

Missing File 01_02_03_04 / move (loop), MDF boxes / variables arrangement / 2012

Missing File 01_02_ / move (loop), MDF boxes / variables arrangement / 2012  

Missing File 01_02_ / move (loop) /2012

Missing Files / computer, burnt paper  /2012

Missing File 01_02_03_04 (..) / Oil on canvas, formed / plastic boxes – variables arrangement  / 2013

Missing File 01_02_03_04 / Oil on canvas, formed in plastic boxes – variables arrangement / 2013

Missing File 06_07_ / oil on canvas / 150 x 150 cm & 160 x 210 cm / exhibition view Staycation Museum / 2013