Gastropoda, 2013
The series Gastropod is composed by the accumulation of printed images, most of them of them, having been received by the artist as invitation cards to art exhibitions that have been accumulated in his mailbox as if they were printed spam. In order to produce this series the artist has used the corrosive action of snails (of the gastropod class) on these cards in order to transform their surface.
Fontcuberta’s Gastropod addresses the process of transformation and degradation of iconic images. In this way the artist discovers an added power in the images depicted on these postcards. By this organic action he conceives a critical reflection that splits into three directions: one, about the authorship of the artwork, the other on the process of production in contemporary art and, a third one that refers to the current situation of image overconsumption.
