Nicolás Lamas, Fluid past, 2024
2024
- Medium
- Dismanteled cellphone, Paleolithic tool and photo scale
- Dimensions
- 30 × 43 cm
- Status
- In Gallery Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-156008
In “Fluid Past” (2024), Nicolás Lamas brings together fragments of an iPhone with a prehistoric stone tool and a photograph within a single frame—a meeting of temporal layers that overlap in both material and meaning. Both objects express human creativity, extensions of the hand, tools for engaging with the world. Lamas stages the displacement of technologies not as progress, but as a shift in form and meaning. The components of the mobile phone—once carriers of digital communication—are laid bare and discharged, while the stone tool retains its functional clarity. Between them, a space of friction unfolds, where it is negotiated what remains when function disappears, and what endures when technology recedes. This version emphasizes that the transition between objects should not be understood as rigid progress, but as dynamic, fluid transformation. The term “fluidity” points to the ongoing, non-linear change in technological and cultural meanings.
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