作品介紹
V_br ⃤ nt* m ⃤ tt3r* houses the spirits inhibiting the quotidian places, bodies and things that in one way or another contain liquid crystals - a state of matter that simultaneously shares properties of liquids and solid crystals.
Installation V_br ⃤ nt* m ⃤ tt3r* consists of six portals resembling a switched off LCD screen and stones made of recycled plastic, each representing a microhistory that the author deems an important landmark in relation to how we relate to the material technologies. Moments once liquefied and frozen for now - exhumation, modernity, body, production line, commodity, and re-crystallization - are lined up on the translucent surfaces.
The material representation not only acknowledges the reality of crystals enabling the everyday technologies, but also the phenomena of crystals supposedly countering the negative effects of the same technologies with natural crystal grids blocking radio magnetic waves or chembusters fighting off 5G radiation.
作者介紹
Liva Dudareva (b. Jelgava) is an artist who has an interest in mineral speculations, man-made stones and geological layers that make up the Earth. She describes relationships with(in) the material World according to the agency, fictions and scientific realities ascribed to the solid particles of the Universe.
Using sculpture, installation and writing, her research-based practice is situated between visual arts, geology, built environment and geopolitics, focusing on the interpretations of (liquid) crystals, carbon and radioactive elements.
Currently practicing out of Bangkok, she also runs an architecture studio about plastics at INDA: International Program in Design and Architecture.
使用媒材
PETE, mineral powder, paint, acrylic, neon wire
作品尺寸
Length 300 x Width 200 x Height 110 cm
