GAZELL.iO is thrilled to present a new collection Imaginary Blues by October 2024 artist-in-residence Liliana Farber, expanding on her recent acquisition at the Victoria & Albert Museum London. This project reimagines the sea monsters from Medieval and Renaissance maps, transforming them into intricate data collages that utilise Google Earth's ocean textures. The series explores strategies used by colonial and technological empires to represent the
unknown.

Farber, a Uruguayan artist based in New York, explores the intersection of history, photography, and geography in both our digital and physical realities. Her work challenges the boundaries of the virtual world, crafting layered images that delve into themes of knowledge, trust, and truth.

In her previous series, Isolarii (2021-2024), she blended historic and contemporary cartography, using custom software to weave together diverse imagery into large-scale artworks. This meticulous process evokes early visualisations of the globe, while questioning the reliability of geographic information systems and their impact on our understanding of space.

With this new collection, Farber not only reflects on the colonial legacy of mapping but also critiques the corporate narratives shaped by technology. Her expansive imagery offers a poignant escape from our hyper-connected existence, inviting viewers to consider the frameworks of knowledge and the universal language of mapping.

About Liliana Farber

Liliana Farber is a Uruguayan-born, New York-based, visual artist. Through research-based processes and using digital strategies, Farber creates still and moving images, installations, and web-based works. These investigate notions of land imaginaries, unmappable spaces, utopias, and techno-colonialism. She uses timestamps, geolocation points, satellite imagery, antique maps, and literature as raw materials for minimal pieces that reflect on the human experience of living within global scale infrastructures and colossal amounts of data.

Farber’s work has been exhibited at The Victoria and Albert Museum, London; The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Lisbon; The Center for Books Art, New York; Ars Electronica Festival, Linz; Arebyte Gallery, London; Panke Gallery, Berlin; Chile’s National Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago; Uruguay’s National Museum of Visual Arts, Montevideo; and WRO Media Art Biennale, Wrocland, among others venues.

Farber is a recipient of the Lumen Prize for Art and Technology, UK. She has been an artist-in-residence at Wassaic Projects, NY, Nars Foundation, NYC, Arebyte Gallery, London (online), and Off Site Projects, London (online). Her work is part of the permanent collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and numerous private collections around the world. She has been featured in On Curating, Switzerland; and MIT’s Leonardo Journal, USA. Farber received her MFA from Parsons School of Design, New York, and her BA from ORT University, Uruguay.