Nuda Vita

Description

Artist Notes

This piece represents an important chapter of my life—a time when hope and despair were deeply intertwined, as I found myself in exile. The tickets used in this collage come from many of the journeys I made during that period. The years between 2008 and 2012, for me, embodied the very concept of Nuda Vita or “Bare Life.” Every time I boarded a train or a plane, I asked myself: “Why do I have to do this?” That question became a constant refrain throughout those years. This piece invites viewers to reflect on the meaning of statelessness and the search for a place to call home. Each color applied to the collage represents a distinct emotional state and a unique memory. Through this work, I aim to bring abstract art into new emotional and political territory exploring the themes of exile, struggle, and belonging.

Preservation Notes

MATERIALS AND CONSTRUCTION Nuda Vita is a physical work, not a digital-native image: an acrylic and mixed-media collage on canvas, recorded at 50 x 40 cm. Recorded materials are acrylic, pigments, polymer sealant, adhesive, boarding passes and train tickets, with canvas as the support stated in the medium field. The record's description states that the collage is composed entirely of boarding passes and train tickets and that multilayered acrylic textures run throughout the piece, so the surface combines paint and pigment layers over adhered paper ephemera. The archivist's existing observations are retained here in full: the work was described as a freshly made piece, not quite one year old, created in 2026, for an exclusive thesis collection titled Exilium Series; it resides in the artist's studio in Stockholm, Sweden; it was assessed by the archivist as being in excellent condition; it is kept preserved in a climate-controlled setting, and is to be properly preserved this year upon fulfillment of its placement in a museum gallery setting. No condition claims beyond those recorded by the archivist are made here, as the physical work has not been examined. CONSERVATION REQUIREMENTS As a canvas support carrying acrylic and polymer sealant, the painted structure should be stable. Keep the work in stable relative humidity and avoid direct sunlight. Dust with a soft dry brush only. Do not use solvents on the sealed acrylic surfaces. Support the stretcher when handling and do not carry the work by its upper member alone. The work is a collage incorporating tickets and boarding passes. These are acidic commercial stocks that were never manufactured to last, so continued deterioration, discolouration and embrittlement of the collaged elements must be treated as an ongoing risk even where the acrylic and polymer sealant layers are sound. Assessment by a paper conservator is recommended. Encapsulation of any loose or detached ephemera and protection from light, moisture and oxygen are recommended. Any lifting edges at the collage overlaps should be consolidated by a conservator before the work is handled further or framed. In all cases, UV-filtering glazing is recommended. The saturated reds, yellows and oranges are the passages most at risk of fading, which is a particular concern for this work given that the record describes vivid and varied hues as central to its meaning. DIGITAL RECORD The original capture was scanned in Sweden as a TIFF master in high, medium and low resolution variants. Those TIFF masters are held outside this archive, and the file uploaded here is a converted derivative rather than the master itself. CURRENT ASSET: JPEG, 1036 x 762 pixels, 331 KB. At 300 DPI this permits a maximum reproduction size of approximately 3.5 inches on the long edge. This is classed as LOW resolution. WARNING: This file is a low-resolution derivative and is inadequate for print reproduction or detailed study. The high-resolution TIFF master must be sourced and uploaded before this work is sold, printed, or reproduced. Sanity accepts TIFF uploads directly, so no conversion step is required; one work in this collection, Between Two Worlds, is already stored as an 84 MB TIFF master and stands as the reference standard for the rest of the collection. The high-resolution TIFF master of Nuda Vita should be uploaded as the primary image, with the medium and low resolution variants retained in the gallery field. At present the gallery field is unused on this record, so only a single derivative image exists in Sanity. OUTSTANDING VERIFICATION 1. The archivist's existing note states that the work was created in 2026 and is not quite one year old, while the yearCreated field records 2025. These two statements cannot both be correct; the date of creation must be confirmed against the artist's own records and the discrepancy resolved. 2. Location is recorded as "StockHolm Sweden" and requires normalisation to a consistent form (Stockholm, Sweden) once the current custody of the work is confirmed. 3. The medium field reads "Acrylic and Mixed media on canvas" while the description states the work is a collage composed entirely of boarding passes and train tickets. The record does not make clear whether the paper ephemera is adhered to a stretched canvas or whether the paper layer itself now constitutes the effective surface. Physical examination is required to resolve this, because a sealed canvas support and a paper-dominated surface require different treatment: the former is stable and can be brush-dusted and framed conventionally, while the latter is vulnerable to cockling, edge tears and creasing and would require flat storage, acid-free window-mounting and hinging with Japanese tissue and starch paste. 4. The extent to which the polymer sealant covers the collaged paper elements is not recorded and must be established before any surface cleaning is attempted. yearCreated, medium, materials, dimensions, location and description are all present on this record; none are absent. SCHEMA NOTE This record carries a `sellable` field, set to false, which is not defined in the art schema. Because the field is undefined in the schema it cannot be viewed or edited through the Studio, and it will block this record from being published until the development team adds the field to the schema (or the field is removed from the document by an API-level operation). The field has been left untouched.

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