Vitail Remains

It was never so easy before to cut and paste. We can say that the computers are still expensive, and that the assumed computer dominance of the world is still a mere illusion, but nobody can deny that during the time when computers filled rooms, few people could imagine that in future teenagers would use computers as luxury video games. Or that computers would be tools for doctors, lawyers, writers, and photographers.

The cut and paste culture created new expressive forms, in which the references that the artist collected from the external world were filtered and rebuilt. Using pieces of images, sounds and thoughts, the digital artists create pieces of work full of references from the outside world, but assuming a private identity.

In his work "Vital Remains", Daniel Quevedo decides to use elements of own self as the fuel for his work. Photographing parts of his body, he builds objects, beings and concepts, obtaining effects that range from entertaining to repulsive, always being unusual. Animals, live totems, vegetables... the fauna and the flora created by Quevedo are always results from his own exposed flesh.

Daniel Quevedo is 24 years old, and was a researcher at the Photography Center at UFRGS. In 1999, he took part in the First International Mission of Scientific Photography, where he could apply the techniques developed in the Photography Center while registering the archeological artifacts.

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