Sikka Ingentium - Daniel Canogar

Daniel Canogar presents a video installation that reflects on culture, the media we use to store information, and their survival in today's society.

DANIEL CANOGAR

Daniel Canogar (Madrid, 1964) received a master's degree with a specialization in photography from New York University and the International Center for Photography in 1990. He has created various works in public spaces, including Waves, permanently installed in the atrium of the Houston Center in Houston; Travesías, created for the atrium of the Council of the European Union in Brussels; and Constelaciones, the largest photographic mosaic in Europe, located in Madrid Rio Park.

Among his latest projects is Storming Times Square, a video intervention on 47 screens in Times Square. His work has been exhibited at the Reina Sofía National Art Museum, the Velázquez Palace in Madrid, Bitforms Gallery, the Natural History Museum in New York, the Andy Warhol Museum, and the Mattress Factory Museum in Pittsburgh, among others.

SIKKA INGENTIUM

Sikka Ingentium is a sculptural installation composed of 2,400 DVDs containing films from around the world: not only Hollywood, but also other powerful industries such as Hong Kong, India (Bollywood), and Nigeria (Nollywood), as well as others that are numerically less important. With this material, Canogar creates a huge installation, forming a kind of floating cloud that shows the reflective side of the DVDs. From the other side of the room, the content of the DVDs themselves is projected, thus turning them into a screen that receives the information they store. The result is an installation made up of waste materials, which, when projected upon, are activated and become a surface of colors and shapes in motion that expand throughout the room in the form of reflections. This sensory experience is complemented by a sound composition created by Alexander MacSween in collaboration with the artist, based on fragments of the films' soundtracks, which sets the rhythm of the projection.

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