The piece is completed through the experience of the viewer. Fernando Llanos performs the complexities of his lived experience by embracing the artistic and conceptual possibilities of new technologies. Due to pollution regulations, Llanos cannot drive his car one day a week. He uses this day each week to finalize and distribute his latest short, digital video to a couple hundred recipients, artists, curators, and friends, via email. The videos are designed with this process of dissemination in mind and are ready for critical response.
Email becomes the mode of production as much as photography or video.
Llanos abstracts culturally specific symbols so that they take on an oddly neutralized universal significance. The links on his web site are the generic pictograms of an airplane emergency pamphlet, symbols of common physical mobility across communication boundaries. In his videos he similarly manipulates global symbols. The work of Gamboa, Lopez Garcia, Constantini and Llanos can and should not be conflated. They come from different artistic and cultural backgrounds and each deals with a unique set of subjects through his or her work.