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Monika Bravo(born 1964) is a multi-disciplinary artist born in Bogotá, Colombia, who lives and works in

New York City, New York.

莫尼卡．布拉佛（Monika Bravo，1964年生）是在哥倫比亞波哥大出生的跨領域藝術家，目前在紐

約市生活及工作。

Arising from her ongoing research on color and rhythm, Monika Bravo’s new works place us in an abyss pulsing with vibrating waves of energy, where readability and meaning remain elusive. After Bergson’s understanding of time and his concept of duration--which differentiates between the time that we measure in intervals and the time of our experience--Bravo aims for an interconnected sense of unity between space and time through an understanding of our mind ́s cognitive structure, which gives to formless reality both shape and meaning. Thus, the visual layers and cycles that dwell between those states of abstraction and their corresponding materiality are what Bravo ́s work reveals to us and what we are supposed to experience through it.

布拉佛最新的作品以她目前對顏色及韻律的研究為基礎，將我們置於一座有著能量在其中以波狀脈動的深淵，意義本身以及它的可辨識性在這裡都變得難以捉摸。布拉佛引用了柏格森對於時間以及時間綿延的概念，而這種概念與我們平時所測量的物理時間以及內在時間意識大相逕庭。她試圖根據這種時間概念，將我們心靈的認知結構理解為將形體及意義置於無形的現實，進而觸動對時空統一性的聯覺。因此，布拉佛的作品向我們呈現、我們也應該從中體驗到的，便是處於這些抽象狀態及其相應實體化之間的視覺堆疊與循環。

Throughout her new in stallation, in the form of a mosaic of ideas, Bravo shows the gathering and editing of

images through stitching, weaving, and compositing. Bravo also uses color to create a material contrast, a

physical experience grounded in the circular duration of time in the piece. In the center of five monitors,

three projectors, and sound, the viewer undergoes a hyper - rhythm.

For Bravo, the skin--our skin--is what translates these sensorial forms. For her, the body is the site where

form and content develop an exchange, a dialogue, and where a balance between them is struck. Following

this conceptual frame, the one who knows and understands the surface is the one who can experience the

depths and the void. As Paul Valéry used to say, “the skin is the deepest thing there is.” But, at the same

time, inspired by the mechanical and hallucinatory vision of a possible future where robots would see the

world as a pixelated blur, Bravo uses technology to assemble a composite of pieces and particles--an animated puzzle of multiple and cracked realities--that allows the viewer to descend into a place where other possibilities

--parallel realities and discoveries--exist.

布拉佛在她的全新裝置中，以縫接、編織及組合實現了概念的馬賽克，進而展示了圖像的收集與編輯。布拉佛也運用顏色創造有形的對比，一種由於在作品中循環的時間所獲得的物理體驗。在五個螢幕、三座投影機以及聲音的環繞下，觀看者體驗到的是「超韻律」（hyper-rythm）。對於布拉佛而言，我們的肌膚就是這些感官形式的轉譯器。她認為，身體就是形式與內容建立交流的場所，是一場對話、是這些要素之間激盪出的一種平衡。在這個概念架構下，認識並理解表面的人就是能體驗深度及虛無的人。就如同保羅·瓦勒里（Paul Valéry）曾經說過的：「肌膚就是最深刻的東西」。然而在此同時，布拉佛也受到對未來的機械式幻想所啟發：機器人可能會將世界視為一個像素化的汙漬；因此她使用科技來建構片段與粒子的組合物——也就是多個現實碎片的動畫拼圖——

，讓觀看者能昇華到另一個境界，在那裡可以看到其他可能性，也就是平行現實及發現的存在。