"CS-01/5"

C-print (Lambda) mounted on Dibond, Diasec

signed, titled, dated and numbered (ink) on mount verso

What appears to the spectator to be a cloud front over the whipped-up sea does not touch the real outside world at any point, but nevertheless reproduces a real image: the image that we carry within us of the sea, clouds, or landscape, or what we have learned to see. It is remarkable, Monaco says, that in something as remote from nature as software, the possibility of "landscape" is not only inscribed, but in the case of fractal simulation, it is even particularly suitable for representation of sea, sky, and mountains. She tests the potential of the software with her works. And these tests also explain the titles of the pictures: they are based on a system of order with which Monaco records her processing steps, but at the same time they should make visible that these are computer-generated worlds.
(Johanna Schwanberg, Foyer der KTU Linz, Kunstgespräch 19.1.2010)