THE DISAPPEARING SELF, SECOND ACT         

"The Disappearing Self, Second Act" is a multimedia installation comprised of video performance and alternative photography that come together to give time and existence a different meaning. The installation offers a particular interpretation of presence and absence, the mediation of the screen, and the transformation of the self every day when engaging with the internet, social media, and personal technology. The installation highlights recurring themes in Vega's work, like disappearance, which for the artist to disappear is not the act of vanishing but rather, living in the in-between cohabitating with technological devices that decide for us, that talk with us, and that integrate with contemporary human beings, causing disassociation and an avoidance of the current perception of time, that moves in a faster pace than before the ubiquity of the internet.


The series is an invitation to slow the rush of everyday interaction with hand-held technology. Time moves slower when experiencing these images. The artist invites the audience to partake in her self-portraits that blur the boundaries between painting and photography; her projected video performances will introduce an alternative world without the internet, leaving behind the rush to consume and experience the world with the mediation of a small screen. The artist offers an open-ended conversation with her audience in which a rather strange, dim-colored environment blends analog and digital points of view.