De–Extinction



—Argón 9000 kelvin, cable 7500 Volt.
—Variable Dimensions
—2017–ongoing


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In the series Redundancy, Karlos Gil works with fragments of neon recovered from old advertising signs. Archaeological remains of an endangered technology that have lost their original meaning and acquired a new one. Reflecting on the memory or biography of these recycled objects, the artist establishes analogies around the organic, addressing the presence of the passage of time in what we humans generate. In this case, the typographic forms of the pieces seem to hide a coded message.

Redundancy series are made with recycled neon bulbs from a traditional street-ad, now replaced with LED technology, from cities like Hong Kong, Tokyo, Minsk, Moscow, Shanghai, etc. The pieces are repurposed in a complex assembly line, which conserves the glass, the gas and the original colour to generate two new compositions that breathe a new life into an endangered technology.

Added to this is the intermittent Morse code messages with which the neon lights activate and attempt to establish communication, walking the fine line between what makes sense and what doesn't..

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