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About Martta Garcia

Zebra CrossingThe Shibuya Crossing in Tokyo is one of the most impulsive intersections in the world. For hardly a minute all car traffic is stopped. Then thousands of rushing pedestrians pour into five crosswalks, spilling in all directions. It’s a moment of sensory overload for Spanish artist Martta García. She reinterprets this incomprehensible flow of people into a binary system of seen and unseen, which is based off the concept of human sight as a system of conscious and unconscious perception. The zebra crossing and its alternating colors thus become an artificial retina, with certain content deliberately omitted and revealed only as silhouettes. Not unlike the process of human… Read more

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