The “out of signal” state is a suspension. It is the moment when the flow is interrupted, when the narrative fades, when the viewer no longer receives images to consume. It is a void imposed by the media system, but also an involuntary space of silence. In an era dominated by digital continuity and permanent hyperconnectivity, that static image becomes almost revolutionary. The artist performs a radical gesture: transforming an electronic, immaterial, cold image into living painterly matter. Colors are no longer perfect pixels; they drip, bleed, stain. The signal dissolves. Technical order collapses into manual gesture. The surface vibrates, breathes, becomes human.
Oops!…I Did It Again cm 100x70 2024
“No signal” is not merely a technical error but an existential metaphor. It marks the moment when the noise of the world stops and we are left alone before the screen, forced to confront emptiness. It is the off-air moment of consciousness, the interruption of representation, the fracture between transmission and reception.
These works do not depict an image; they depict the end of the image. They stage what happens when the flow halts and the system has nothing left to transmit. The absence of content becomes content. Silence becomes language.
