Simone Giordano

Artist Statement

Software is our interface with the world — with memory, imagination, and one another. It is the universal language through which we communicate, and the engine that keeps us moving. Mobile devices and touchscreens have brought us back to the body, reversing an old fear: the eye now trusts the touch.

If the machine age extended our bodies into space, the digital age has extended our nervous system into a shared, borderless present. I paint from within that shift — still lifes where an apple becomes a screen, a bottle becomes an open window, and Photoshop's aseptic layers reveal as much as they conceal. Consoles, cables, keyboards: the debris of an information society, painted the way older masters painted their tables and fruit.

What interests me most is what's missing from the frame — the human, present only as a trace behind the machinery. My subjects come from memory: an accident, a bonfire, a bird, an ordinary moment recognized as significant only in hindsight. I distort them the way our devices distort us — noisy, fractured, corrupted — because the glitch is not a failure but a form of honesty: an error that reveals the system underneath, and a kind of creative pressure that perfection can't produce.

These images begin on a laptop and end on canvas, carrying a question I keep returning to: what ethics, what consciousness, do we want to build into the tools that are quietly becoming part of us?