Carlos Amorales
Casa de América
“¿Por qué tener miedo al futuro?” (Why Fear the Future?) is the titular question that animated this exhibition. By way of an answer, Carlos Amorales transformed a collection of 428 images into simple black-and-white vectorial representations—computer-generated images made with vectors, not pixels. Printed on photographic paper and hung in neat rows, these images in Liquid Archive (Photographic Version), 1999–2004, range from the deathly to the lively (skulls, a nude); from nature to technology (flying birds, ascending airplanes); and from myth to history (Mexican wrestlers’ masks, Osama bin