Inside/Outside IX, digital 3D render
The artist tries to convey this in a series of rendered pictures and videos, obtained by 3D scanning a real human body and transferring it into a 'computerised world'. As the posthuman view thinks of the body as the original prosthesis, the scanned body also (ironically) finds itself empty after entering the digital world. The hollow husk is looked upon from the inside to discover an ecosystem previously not visible to the human eye which reveals itself as an airy dimension supported by the remnants of the physical body. The supports act as a subsidiary structure for our otherworldly conscience in a world where the informational pattern is privileged over a material embodiment.
The video gives us time for introspection while making us see the embodiment of our conscience in the digital and other bodily and time to imagine how it would look like to feel, think and empathise enclosed in a virtual world. The artist envisions this project as both a way to visualise our obsession with data and the digital and as a way to cope with our day-to-day digital frustrations and meditate upon looking at our future digital selves.
Inside/Outside, digital 3D rendered video
Presentation
The project has been presented at the group exhibition USB Shuffle, Institut für Alles Mögliche, Berlin (2017), at the Triennial of Young Artists - Premiera curated by Maja Antončič at the Centre for Contemporary Art, Celje, Slovenia (2018), the Bodies in Movement group exhibition at the Millepiani Gallery, Rome (2019), the Speculum Artium Festival curated by Maša Jazbec, Špela Pavli Perko, Fabricio Lamoncha and Bogdan Šteh in Trbovlje, Slovenia (2019), and the 6th Wrong Biennale's online exhibition Self as Service curated by Arash Akbari and Farzaneh Nouri (online, 2023/24).
As of the 14th of November 2020, the work was displayed at the first iteration of https://e.a.t.spatial.hub.earth through the Manipulations exhibition, curated by Samatha Hookway at the Institute of Contemporary Ideas and Art.
Inside/Outside III, digital 3D render
Inside/Outside II, digital 3D render
Inside/Outside IV, digital 3D render
Inside/Outside I, digital 3D render
Press
The project was presented in various news outlets as the Official website and catalogue of the Speculum Artium Festival 2019, and the Podjetniški Inkubator Kočevje.
Gallery View
Premiera at CCAC (2018), Photo: Jernej Čuček Gerbec
