BOOKSCAPES

‘The Wi-Fi Is Weak’, ‘Our Mental Space Is The Database’ and ‘Home Is The Net’ are titles attached to some of the BOOKSCAPE on-going series which Mitrentse invented since 2017. She transforms collectible hard backs (book covers) into colourful flat canvases, ( as if they were paintings referencing Mondrian , Rothko or Anne Ryan ) surfaces on which to write and further explore post-internet text-based ‘landscapes’/‘mental-scapes’ and particularly how the digital world seems to function as a ‘referee’ between humans and nature. The Instagram and Facebook most popular hashtags abbreviations, which are pop-up algorithmic codes, are used in BOOKSCAPES as a new Logos, as if the artist archives the Internet language - a meditation on the nature of digital abundance. Aiming to achieve beautifully inventive reorganisations of the physical book, and in turn how the book as diagram grapples with and shapes what it gives rise to: memory, thought, orthodoxy, belief, insight, compulsion, arousal, imagination, authority. 

Michael Hampton, Arts Writer, Art Monthly / Frieze, London