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you don’t have to emerge from nothing
In You Don’t Have to Emerge from Nothing, I collaborated with my queer friends to re-enact classical sculptures through photogrammetry, creating 3D scans, seeking to reimagine these works, which are at the core of Western representational norms, through a post-normal lens.
The reinterpreted sculptures are presented as holograms to support the re-enactments intertwining temporal spaces. The hologram itself embodies a paradoxical presence—both here and not quite, like a lingering memory suspended in ephemerality, pointing toward sci-fi futures yet to be realized
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NYKYAIKA PHOTOGRAPHIC CENTER
TAMPERE 2024 WINTER
Life in Marble
Life in Marble is a photographic exhibition exploring the role the of classical antiquity in configuring the notion of Whiteness and problematise the adoration of white marble within western culture.
Within this series I re-enacted the works of Italian Neoclassical sculptor Antonio Canova by re-imagining the myself as each sculpture. Exploiting my own fat queer body with its physical limitations, and flawed characteristics and mimicking the seductive shimmer of marble with a cheap polyester body suit. In my re-telling of Canova faultless sculptures, I want to deconstruct the fantasy of Whiteness with its perfected moralities and idolised beauty standards which these and similar marble sculptures represent I want the realism of my own body to create a sensitive re-reading of these sculpture as fallible and injudicious and not above scrutiny, and to raise questions about the motivations behind placing them at the centre of our national collections.
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COLLABORATION WITH JASMINE FÄRLING
Oksasenkatu 11, Helsinki 2024