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Encounter
David Van Eyssen
Encounter is a life-scale virtual sculpture, experienced with mobile and AR devices, that captures the moment of impact between two drivers and their cars. Derived from this 3.38m piece, a series of works on paper, printed using 2.5D technology, depict the wireframe figures of the two drivers, locked in an embrace, above the wreckage of the vehicles.
Atractor Studio, Juan Cortes
The Migrants is a project based on a real bird-migration history from 2014. The Golden Warbler birds faced adverse conditions due to global warming that generated storms on the coasts of Florida, which was their main destination. This caused the birds to alter their migratory routes, being forced to explore an alternative way through Mexico and Central America until arriving in Colombia.
Rethinking the relationships between technology, animal worlds and culture through art generates the possibility of imagining new scenarios and alternative atmospheres where biodiversity as a production of difference from nature recovers its power in a gesture of resistance to our current global scenario.
Janaina Tschäpe (b. 1973 in Munich, Germany; lives and works in New York, NY)
In her practice, Tschäpe often incorporates themes of aquatic, plant and human life to suggest dreamlike, abstract landscapes that blur perceptions of illusion and reality. Referencing interests in myth, morphology and the mysteries of aquatic states, she has developed a distinctive language of abstraction in which organic forms are imbued with a remarkable quality of luminosity.
Scream is one in a series of artworks (prints, photographs, videos) by Janaina Tschäpe that engage with the image of a mermaid. In these works Tschäpe observes this extraordinary and mysterious creature, inspired by memories, myths and dreams, and investigates her anatomy, her femininity and her dual position of being both a subject and an object. In the current work, Tschäpe‘s mermaid is silently screaming underwater in a frame that moves onwards and backwards.
Scream, 2004
Martine Guttierrez
CHINA DOLL VR Exhibition Walkthrough
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CHINA DOLL is the experience of wanting to be “the image” so badly that you sacrifice what you truly need. Consume until you are—touching the flame—becoming the mold to break her. It wasn’t until manifesting into the bombshell that I could see my aspirations for what they truly are. The child inside has to say “I am not more beautiful as Britney Spears.” What does it take to recognize our stars are voids inherently as blank as mannequins? This famous aspiration of perfection—whether a personal or public impulse—is a piling of references. The application of those references curated into media—projecting the perpetuation of our colonial hierarchies. Blonde is the cheapest privilege you can buy.
CHINA DOLL, 2020
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