Our digital archives exist without physical presence. Stored on our phones, they often remain invisible, fragmented and easily forgotten. Through this on- going series, digital prints are burnt onto ceramics, each shaped like a smartphone. The work transforms weightless data into tangible objects, giving these digital traces a news physical presence beyond virtual storage. The arrange ments are never the same but changing and adapting which allows the work to slightly change its context and meaning.
«Thalles Piaget’s work, “Misleading Gim micks”, is more conceptual; it speaks to our relationship with images—the thousands of images accumulated on our phones, which we often do little with, but which are supposed to resem ble our memory. The immense virtual screen into which we all immerse ourselves to stay informed, be entertained, or connect with others becomes overwhelming, and ceramics offer a powerful antidote to this. Not only do they ground us in the earth and dust, but they also connect us to a slow process in which the material follows the logic of the elements, such as fire, earth, and water. Thales questions our devices and the importance we place on the image or the object, on what remains. I find that this work very effectively highlights our paradoxes in the face of new technologies.»
Virginie Otth
Thalles Piaget (b. 1996, Porangatu, Brazil) is a Brazilian-Swiss artist living and working in Biel / Bienne. Through instal lations, sculptures and images, Thalles explores the relationships we build with technologies, the inflationary use of digital images and the physical infra structures that sustain them. He studied Photography at CEPV Vevey and completed a BA in Fine Arts at the IAGN HGK Basel FHNW.