Painting from digital trash
Arsen Eca, has embarked on a unique ecological and artistic approach: recycling digital files, often considered as intangible waste from our computers, which, in reality, contribute to digital pollution. Arsen Eca’s method is as innovative as it is poetic. It begins by collecting the files that individuals send it – fragments of digital data deemed useless or obsolete. Once brought together, these files undergo an extreme compression process, until they are reduced to a single point, a dense pixel containing the essence of all the accumulated information.
This large pixel then becomes the heart of his work. Using a robot’s hand, it transforms this digital point into a physical Paint point on the canvas. This pixel, overflowing with condensed information, serves as a starting point for his pictorial creations. Through this approach, it not only gives a second life to abandoned digital data; he transforms them into art, by questioning the border between the digital and the physical, the ephemeral and the permanent.
Each work by Arsen Eca is thus a microcosm of information, a universe hidden in a point. It reminds us that even in what seems insignificant or exhausted, there is a potential for beauty and rebirth, an opportunity to rethink our relationship with digital waste and the environment.
