The rise of digital media, social networks, and access to diverse information channels have transformed the image—an open space by definition—into a reflection of our shared experience of the globalizing era. In his most recent work, entitled Multinational Impressionism, Fernando Uhía brings together several interests that have been present in his work and relate to visual discourses, the reproducibility of the image—and its consequent deconstruction—and the correspondence between traditional forms and contemporary practices in the pictorial medium. His work develops from the construction of a symbolic landscape based on a series of cultural signs created by multinational industries, increasing the democratic potential of images through their mass production and distribution.
