meet me by the pixel stream
with Grace Wardlaw
metal, glass, iphone, digital animations
group exhibition, i want you to see this
curated by Agnes Wong
Xpace Cultural Centre
Jan 18 - March 15, 2025
Surrounded by lily pads. Swampy, wet, glossy.
I dare not stare into the puddles for too long.
It’s beautiful, it’s all so beautiful. I want it, I yearn for
it all. Does your garden ever glitch?1 Nothing is the
way that it seems, yet that does not matter to me
because everything means everything to me.
(text of the work by Victoria Vyraeth and Agnes Wong)
‘meet me by the pixel stream’ explores topics of body identity, femininity and queerness through a multimedia installation. Inspired by the sapphic-coded fable “Goblin Market” (1862), the project is a translation from poetry to sculpture, creating a new sort of fable on the female body and its representation in a post-gender, digital world. Through the mediums of glass, metal and projected digital animation, the work aims to materialise how the feminine body and sexuality have been depicted through symbols and connections with the earth and water, imagining future body forms and environments as they connect to digital queer space. The work ties into concepts of alternative identities through digital landscapes, nature, ecofeminism, anthropomorphic seduction and transhumanism.
photos by Agnes Wong, Marisa Müsing, Grace Wardlaw and Cala Brees.
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