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Through the permutation of the five research fields:

colour, time, signal, language and possibility

an interconnected field of conceptual relations emerges:

 

COLOUR | TIME , TIME | SIGNAL 
POSSIBLE | LANGUAGE , LANGUAGE | TIME

 

are among the fundamental axes of LAb[au]’s artistic research.

artworks
painting, writing, calculating, transcoding

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installations
available, archive, in progress

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public art
public space, indoor, ongoing, proposals

 

linguistic monochromes
colour archives
colour etymologies

colour taxonomies
temporal pigments

invisible signals, visible colours
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colour as a field of knowledge


duration paintings
time words
visual palimpsests
temporal lexica
entropies

signals from another time
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time as a material 

 

extended perception
sensing through data
possible dimensions of reality
speculative meanings
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signals between the visible and the invisible
between established meanings and new senses

 

displayed glyphs

translated signals
possible language systems
emergent lexicons
saturated signs

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language between code and meaning

 

probable combinations
possible readings
stochastic landscapes
random orders
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emergent spaces of meaning

 

a cartography of


interconnected research fields
and relations yet to emerge

 

Colour entropy: colour transformed through duration

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Colour sensing: the invisible spectrum of light made tangible

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Colour models: colour defined through language

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COLOUR | POSSIBILITY
Colour speculations: recombining characteristics of colour into new readings

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Colour tautology: self-referential relations within colour​

Colour sensing: the invisible spectrum of light made tangible

Colour models: colour defined through language

Colour entropy: colour transformed through duration

Colour tautology: self-referential relations within colour

ORIGAMI SQUARE SUPERBLACK

LAb[au], Origami Square Superblack — kinetic Superblack relief of 36 moving squares

Why construct a rule-based kinetic artwork whose movement can barely be seen? Beneath its apparently monochromatic surface, 36 moving squares combine order and randomness, yet Superblack absorbs the light through which their pattern and motion could be perceived. The work thus conceals the very logic that constitutes it, turning its rational construction into an enigma.

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While the monochrome has historically opened painting towards infinite space, here space is physically absorbed. The work asserts painting’s autonomy not through abstraction or symbolic representation but through the physical properties of colour itself. This painting suspends the viewer between logic and perception, between the visible and the absorbed.

LIST OF RELATED PROJECTS

Origami Square Superblack

Origami Permutations Superblack

Variations of an Icon

Sterlinggrau, triptych

Disagreeance, Decreasingly, Undecreasing ,diptych

CONCEPTUAL SEQUENCE

Vanishing Combinations → Absorbed Infinity → Iconoclastic Permutations → Permuted Characteristics → Improbable Colour Language

LIST OF RELATED KEYWORDS

Colour Characteristics # Mathematical Operations # Probability # Colour Harmonies # Logic # Perception # Demonstration # Wandering Eye # Chance # Iconography

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