Versions

The works that make up the Versions series are created through montages of images from films, Disney cartoons, YouTube videos, memes and animations created by the artist, with a voiceover by an actress who provides a robotic reading. The different remixes compose a visual essay interspersed with quotations from widely different sources – such as a sentence by Bruce Lee juxtaposed with a passage by Borges – developing a reflection on copyright and on the appropriation of images that populate the digital world. The different versions of these videos lie between the typical uniqueness of a work of art and the potential of repetition. Oliver Laric (Innsbruck, 1981) is a multimedia artist who, through sculpture and video, explores themes such as metamorphosis, hybridization, authenticity, and reproducibility. He is one of the first artists to manipulate YouTube contents. In his very short videos he combines typical aspects of the digital world, exploiting the potential of the platform and using it not only as an archive to extrapolate images, but also as a place of exposition and free diffusion of his works, generating a short circuit between the art world