Offline Dark Age by Carlos Amorales
Amorales’ practice encompasses animation, drawing, installation, video, and performance; he also collaborates with professional animators, composers, designers, musicians-and even wrestlers. Having grown up with the influence of both Mexican and European cultures, Amorales frequently explores the commonalities and disparities between the two by juxtaposing their distinctive vocabularies. His work is also deeply personal and reflective of emotional introversion; it journeys into a dark world of fantasy, blurring the line between the real and the imagined. Amorales lives and works in Mexico City.
In the early days of the COVD-19 pandemic, we re-introduced Creative Time Comics as a digital platform to forefront artist’s responses to the global shifts - be they mental, political, health, or economic - happening around us. As we shared the comics on our social media platform, we realized that they are an incredible and practical device to make sense and reflect on the ever-changing world, beyond the pandemic. We are pleased to continue sharing Creative Time Comics as periodically as a means for communicating complex ideas about society and honoring the medium’s long history of expressing the zeitgeist in times of war, distress, and upheaval.
Creative Time Comics also affirms the vital importance of artists’ voices in shaping contemporary discourse, while exploring the digital realm as an expansive and dynamic public space. The resulting works are released on Creative Time’s Instagram account and featured on our website and other social media platforms.
Creative Time Comics 2020 references our long history of interpreting digital platforms as forms of public space, and calling on artists to provide critical perspectives on current events. From the first iteration of Creative Time Comics in 2010, to our global initiative Creative Time Reports, we have long championed work that can circulate widely without physical proximity, and that transforms individual viewership into collective experience.