CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS: WHO ARE THEY?

“To designate this new figure of the artist, I have coined the term semionaut: creator of paths within a landscape of signs. Inhabitants of a fragmented world, where objects and shapes abandon the cradle of their original culture to spread across the global space, wandering in search of connections to establish.” 

Nicolas Bourriaud

Traditionally, we have defined an artist as one who does something and expresses themselves through material and immaterial forms. That something holds aesthetic and communicative capabilities that can be recognized by individuals and validated within the institutional art world.