2022
Painting with an AR extension
„Church/Factory“, Degree Show,
Camberwell College of Art, 2022
at Copeland Gallery, London
The painting "Transformation 1.0" contains an Augmented Reality extension though which the viewer is invited to enter into the life-size scene, creating a portal between a reality online and offline.
Viewed from top to bottom, the bodies become more and more disembodied. They lose their organic attributes and take on cyborg-like traits. The body is deconstructed and reconstructed, but not with the human image in mind. However, viewed from the bottom up, inorganic matter is breathed life into as technology becomes sentient. Is it a liberation from the limitations and burdens associated with our experience in organic body, or an increasing loss of one's presence in the physical world? The AR extension makes it even clearer that the viewer is already in the middle of this process. He is not aware of it, since this environment only becomes visible when he connects to the Internet and opens access to this new space through the display and camera of his smartphone.