Nota TEXTUM™

Nota TEXTUM began as an idea to take over the artist's profile space on Saatchi Art.

“After all, it was given to me to do what I like,” he said.

Perez high jacked Saatchi Art’s virtual room which is intended to help visualize and make sense of an artworks scale for potential “collectors” (and of course, to see if it looks great with the sofa – in this case a white one with a plant at its side).

At first he simply “hung” his own artwork above the couch and then offered the flattened images on Saatchi Art.com.

“It immediately became apparent that the room was alive with potential. It was an organic space. Livable in a sense”, he states.

By continually restaging each room Perez created new narratives on a daily basis for the 30 days of September 2015 that it “hung” at Saatchi Art.

“I loved the idea of my refined art hanging above a couch in this virtual room, then using really crappy Photoshop techniques to develop powerful narratives and intentions.”

But the experiment didn’t end there…

“I had blurred the lines between the art and its presentation”, Perez expounds. “What I had really created was an Organic Virtual Artwork that not only included the intended and obvious images, but now it involved Saatchi Art, its viewers, Instagram viewers, etc. Every word, every contact – 24/7 – was a living and breathing organ of this entity. Each keyword, for instance, was a clue or a deception. The order of the images, the time of day they were uploaded, EVERYTHING…was part of the artwork. The whole of it is the artwork. Any of the fortunate people who came across it in anyway, own it.”

The fixed duration was intended to demonstrate the “lifespan, fragility and eventual futility” of Nota TEXTUM.  Perez programed 30 days of life…

On October 1st, 2015 at 12 am Nota TEXTUM was pronounced dead and removed everywhere.