Copperfield London Opening today: Oracles and Algorithms explores new futures and inclusion of narrative across cultures with works by Rebeca Romero and Maria Joranko

Copperfield, London present Oracles and Algorithms, with works by Rebeca Romero and Maria Joranko.

Both Romero and Joranko reconfigure historical objects from non-western civilisations. Their works draw attention to the artifice of knowledge-construction, specifically that of the fabrication of historical narratives by self serving empires. They infiltrate and subvert those long-held narratives, yet do not seek to repeat those mistakes by imposing a strict alternative. Rather, their artworks urge us to remain open to hearing the myriad voices and processes of knowledge-creation, and to accept the scepticism that all ‘knowledge’ may simply be a form of superstition. Main image ( [1] The Other Side: Algorithm as Ritual in Artificial Intelligence, Browne, Swift, April 2018)

Maria Joranko explores in her own terms the mysticism of knowledge-creation and the potentials for making a new future, based on the inclusion of narratives from other eras and cultures. Latinx/American artist, Joranko aims to re-energise us with a newly found connection to our history, our selves, and to what she sees as the true container of all consciousness: Earth.
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Peruvian born, Romero’s practice explores the connections between technology and an often imposed Western vision of history, drawing on pre-Columbian cultures. In her newest work, using 3D scans of artefacts from the Chavin civilisation – a pre-Inca culture which flourished from 900 to 200 BCE – Romero raises questions about the production and exchange of knowledge, by combining pre-Columbian objects with new technologies. Reshaped and reborn, these objects have travelled through time and space, past and future, reality and dream.