Clara Pallí Monguilod

Amidst worries on capitalism’s impact and failures and the question of how to react, as a maker, I started wondering how artists in Early Capitalism responded to the (then) new societal changes. This inspired the video series Latent Apparitions, where I enter into a conversation with art works from that period to reflect on current developments. Each work takes different painting genres of the seventeenth century as a starting point, such as still life, animal scenes and landscape. While none of these paintings have the human figure as a direct protagonist, they become actors or sceneries to tell stories of how these visual representations from the Early Modern period started capturing and shaping new ways of experiencing the world that still impact the way we live. For example, ways in which we relate to one another, to materiality, ambition, nature, new technologies, as well as to a sense of endless continuity and progress.