Uncharted Territories delves into four evolutionary themes within Cida de Aragon’s artistic exploration. The thematic sections of exploration are:
- Pervasive Surveillance: This segment of the exhibition delves into the omnipresent yet often invisible surveillance that surrounds us, through a series of 3D animations, digital images, sound, and a parametric sculpture.
- Echoes of Annihilation: Manipulated landscapes born from the remnants of the nuclear test site in Nevada's Mojave Desert, presenting a visual commentary on destruction and its lingering effects.
- Intangible Realities: This section explores synthetic and surreal landscapes, images, and animations, offering a glimpse into alternate dimensions.
- Deconstructed Image: Here, photography is not just captured but dissected. Using digital manipulations and custom software, this theme investigates how images are constructed, perceived, and deconstructed.
“Uncharted” suggests something unfamiliar, unexplored.
This immersive exhibition serves as an investigative narrative filled with both disturbing and poetic imagery. It employs large-format images, dynamic animations, a parametric wall sculpture, and photography to question and reflect upon our immediate urban environment and the enigmatic desert beyond.
Uncharted Territories invites viewers to explore these themes, encouraging profound introspection on the unseen forces that shape our surroundings.
Cida de Aragon holds an MFA from UNLV, Las Vegas, an MA in Photography and the Electronic Image from Goldsmiths College London, an MA in Digital Design from Middlesex University, and a BA in Architecture from the University of São Paulo. She is originally from São Paulo (Brazil). Prior to moving to Las Vegas, Cida lived, studied, and worked in London, Berlin, and in Australia.
Since 2003, Cida has been working as a media artist and photographer in the U.S., Australia, Germany, and in the UK. She enjoys working across boundaries between installation art, video, photography, and sound -- using coding and interactivity to manipulate immersive installations and projections through the observer's movement. Recurrent themes in her work and research are urbanity and the public realm; questions of identity; technology, sound, and the notion of place; body movement, and the integration of media art into public space. Cida is interested in continuing to develop her work in the fields of media art, photography, and immersive/interactive installations. Most recently, she has been very involved in drone photography and 3-D printing.
Cida de Aragon's art installations represent an audio-visual mapping of urban spaces that create ephemeral experiences, combining disciplines such as architecture, video art, photography, sound and digital design -- sometimes using coding and interactivity to manipulate her installations. Although her projects are varied, she always starts with research and first develops a concept or narrative. The cities she has lived in have always influenced her works.
Cida de Aragon lives and works in Las Vegas
On exhibit at Sahara West Library from December 13, 2024 through February 22, 2025
Gallery reception Thursday December 19, 2024 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Monday: 10:00AM – 8:00PM
Tuesday: 10:00AM – 8:00PM
Wednesday: 10:00AM – 8:00PM
Thursday: 10:00AM – 8:00PM
Friday: 10:00AM – 6:00PM
Saturday: 10:00AM – 6:00PM
Sunday: 10:00AM – 6:00PM
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