Shifting Selves.
2024
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In an increasingly digital Universe where individual identities are more and more frequently indistinguishable, what role does the individual plays, understood in his fictitious uniqueness?
This work attempts to explore the theme of the depersonalisation of the individual within the virtual World through a particle system that gradually disintegrates and then recomposes itself into the essence of the physical body belonging to the everyday dimension of human existence.
Within this ever-changing dynamic, the Human Being finds himself in a condition that is both highly flexible and, at the same time, extremely fragile – a state from which is difficult to emerge without being overwhelmed by a reality artificially produced by humankind, yet one that today may be presenting itself as the only possible way of life.
For an untranslatable concept of “Mutable Self” or “One’s Changing Identity”, the work seeks to establish a relationship between a physical dimension and a parallel virtual one – a mosaic of identities that is difficult to allign, and for this very reason, expressed through the continuous random movement of the self within the digital ether.
Within this fragile context, the human figure – brought into the digital Universe through scanning – is subsequently interpreted by a particle-based component, which further emphasizes the ephemeral nature of the self, and manipulated in real time through the interaction with a MIDI controller, in a futile attempt to reestablish the primary order that defines the true essence of Man as a physical entity.