Carlos Bernal Ferrara illustrates the fluctuations induced by the printing of a PDF file by printing a square repeatedly until a grid is obtained. From the immaterial plane image to the printed tangible notebook, the physical factors related to the printer or the paper moved the lines. Through this gesture of repetition, the artist demonstrates that we will always obtained a different result even if the file is the same.
This squared notebook is the reproduction of a copy that the artist made manually using the following protocol:
1. Create a PDF file, size A4, with the drawing of one square centimetre per page. Each of these squares will take a different place. The file will have as many pages as there are square centimetres in the grid space.
2. Print the file page by page putting the same sheet (same side, same direction) in the printer.
3. Once the first side of the sheet is full, print again on the other side.
4. Print fifteen sheets size A4 with the same protocol – that will be the content of the notebook.
The presence of physical factors, such as inherent shifts in the printing or bumps on the paper, becomes apparent once the entire file has been printed.The repetition shows that even with the same PDF file, we can never get the same result.
Carlos Bernal Barrera was born in 1985 in Bogota, Colombia. He lives in Rennes, France since 2013. He studied at the University of Rennes 2 where he wrote his thesis
L'attente comme conduite under the direction of
John Cornu for his Master's degree in Plastic and Poetic Arts in 2015. His artistic practice takes shape through drawing, video and sound. The artist questions modern certainties, the perception of time and gives an important place to chance. Carlos Bernal Barrera widely use repetition, as it is "revealing states of expectation of reflection and imagination".
