Thing/Collection
Ventura’s shift from the bodies to the visual noise mirrors that of the turn in critical thought in the late twentieth century. Thinkers have so thoroughly reduced the world to a series of texts and discourses, imbuing it with relativity and reflexivity, which it teetered on dissolving to just essence. What came afterwards was the seeking of the real within the postmodern hyperreal world, a frantic retrieval of materiality