Repetitive

'Repetitive' is the first solo exhibition by German, London-based artist Ana Viktoria Dzinic at NICOLETTI, London. Working predominantly with photography and installation, Dzinic’s practice investigates contemporary methods of image production, analysing the relationship between processes of subjectivity formation and current modes of fabrication, circulation and consumption of technical images.

In 'Repetitive', the artist presents a series of photographs featuring objects and motifs inspired by the concept of pace layering, which provides an analysis of civilisation as a superimposition of categories evolving at a different speed, from nature, culture and infrastructure up to the so-fast-it-becomes-impossible-to-track: fashion and technology.

Taken with her phone during everyday mise en scene and then transformed from low-res .jpeg pixels to an ever-expandable .svg vector ready to be duplicated, stretched and edited, Dzinic’s images form a rhythmic system based on patterns of repetition varying according to the size of the work, from suggested doubling to intensive multiplication. These images are further processed with the first mainstream 'black and white' filter on mobile photography, before being transferred on velvet and mounted on canvas, taking the form of photographic paintings. Within this framework, the artist uses repetition as an aesthetic and discursive device to examine the conditions whereby a picture becomes viral, the source of collective affect, or a symbol of obsolescence, questioning the neurosis of authenticity via successive procedures of copying, pasting, repeating – a machine of syntactic production, no longer tied to the logic of indexical image making.