Noemí Iglesias
1 September 2024 – 31 January 2025
Noemi Iglesias works with sculptural media and long-lasting performative formats and is a clear example of contemporary nomadism: since 2009 Noemi has lived and worked in Greece, England, Belgium, Portugal, Hungary, China and Korea.
In 2019 she received her Master’s degree in Porcelain from the Tainan National University of the Arts, where she studied contemporary ceramic practices thanks to the ROC Taiwan Scholarship from the Taiwanese Government.
She has recently had her first solo exhibition ‘Love me Fast’ at the Museo Nacional Thyssen Bornemisza in Madrid, curated by Rocío de la Villa; she has also received the residency ‘Artificial Empathy’ in Gluon (BE) organized by Ars Electrónica with her project ‘The Falling City’.
Currently, Noemi is researching on urban Cobalt extraction and recycling processes within the sculpture department of the University of Fine Arts of Lisbon thanks to a grant from the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). This project is also being supported by the Consejería Cultural y Científica de la Embajada de España en Bélgica, and the PXL-MAD University in Hasselt.
Soon, in December, he will inaugurate the solo exhibition ‘Landscapes of Affection’ at the Museo de Bellas Artes de Asturias, curated by Blanca de la Torre.
Project in residence
Dat – Astral Chart
Contemporary relationships are built, managed and stored through our mobile devices, which can lead us to consider these devices as an active part of our organism, i.e. a bodily extension of intimate moments and human relationships. Gradually, we have come to accept the exchange of this sensitive information for free and convenient messaging or hyper-connectivity services that in parallel transform aspects of human life into computational data.
Through this process, known as datafication, large domains of social actions become amenable to real-time monitoring and predictive analysis, transforming intimacy into value and leading us into a tiered system where the qualitative awareness of our emotional relationships is flattened by a quantifiable accumulation of data.
There is a widespread belief in datification as an objective reflection of human behaviour. However, the algorithm employed is inherently selective and manipulative, as it identifies patterns of behaviour or activities based on the data that is unconsciously left behind every time we interact with our mobile devices.
This is the context for the production of the piece Dat – Astral Chart, a random prediction machine that brings together 12 types of personalities based on the digital behaviour of users.
