virtual beauty
somerset house
A thought-provoking exhibition exploring the impact of digital culture and technologies on the traditional definitions of beauty today.
Featuring over 20 international artists, Virtual Beauty will delve into the influence of artificial intelligence, social media, and virtual identities on self-image.
The exhibition will feature interactive installations and pioneering works that challenge traditional beauty standards. Highlights include ORLAN’s Omniprésence (1993), a groundbreaking performance in which the artist live-streamed her own facial aesthetic surgery to critique Western beauty ideals, and Amalia Ulman’s Excellences & Perfections, a powerful commentary on the authenticity of social media personas. Artificial intelligence’s perception of beauty will be examined through AI-generated portraits by Minnie Atairu, Ben Cullen Williams, and Isamaya Ffrench, while Harriet Davey, Frederik Heyman, and Andrew Thomas Huang explore digital self-expression and the creation of avatars beyond human boundaries.
Some content contains themes of or references to nudity, strong language, and sexual activity. The exhibition is not suitable for visitors under 15 years of age.
pretty traumatized stunning divas
PTSD - PRETTY TRAUMATISED STUNNING DIVAS
How do we slay through it all-despite, or because of, our wounds?
PTSD - Pretty Traumatised Stunning Divas is a bold and
unfiltered exhibition by multidisciplinary artists
Aleksander Naerbo @aleksandernaerbo and Coco Warner-Allen @cocowa_art curated at Maxilla Walk Gallery by Nikki Nita Ramírez @nikkinitaramirez.
BUNNY’S GARAGE
BJORN HATTERUD
PRESENTS
ALEKSANDER NAERBO
HIMBO CULTURE IS DYING
ML B2B BH
SEVEN HARD INCHES RISING
HIMBO CULTURE IS DYING and VULNERABLE NARCISSISM this piece in short is about the often overwhelming and crippling pressures of beauty standards put on men, masculine presenting people. This project focuses primarily on gay dating apps and interactions online.
virtual beauty
HEK
(haus der elektronischen kunste)
Today, technology allows us to be more self-aware and calculated in the way we present ourselves publicly than ever before. A new generation now comes of age who have never lived in a world where the idea of digital self-staging has not been a facet of their everyday lives. Questions of beauty are inherent to the proliferation of portable devices and screens on which people look at themselves and share these curated identities with the world. From social media filters and dating apps to artificial intelligence to biometrics, the exhibition Virtual Beauty examines the impact of the latest digital technologies on the definition of beauty and how they radically transform our notions of gender, sexuality, race, and identity. Wandering between the virtual and physical, the artists presented in this exhibition question what beauty is today, inviting us to reconsider the very definition of human identity in the post-internet era.
Featured artists: Ines Alpha, Angelfire, Arvida Byström, GERIKO in collaboration with Juno Calypso, Filip Ćustić, Harriet Davey, Anan Fries & Malu Peeters, Maria Guta, Frederik Heyman, Andrew Thomas Huang & James Merry, Hyphen-Labs, Keiken, Bunny Kinney, Lil Miquela, Aleksander Nærbø, ORLAN, Daniel Sannwald & Beauty_GAN, Simon Senn, Michael Wallinger, Ben Cullen Williams & Isamaya Ffrench.
IN HOUSE for Sarah Baker
Sarah Baker’s studio is Located in East London, UK. After having worked at the studio as a studio assistant, them promoted to studio manager, she launched her first ever IN HOUSE series, in which I had the pleasure of kicking the whole thing off.
Medium and tools used were: Photography, collage, digital illustrations using tools such as Iphone and procreate.
“We're delighted to announce the launch of IN HOUSE, a new series of collaborations between the House of Sarah Baker and artists, illustrators and designers.”
“IN HOUSE will see invited visual creatives take over the brand's Instagram channel with their personal responses to our fragrances.
You can now see the first in the IN HOUSE series with the distinctive imagery of Norwegian artist Aleksander Nærbø showcased on our Insta stream. “
Read more here as written by Curator Writer: Ken Pratt
sarah baker 3-d
At Sarah Baker Studio, East London, UK, I had the oppurtinity to create a series of images for the studio’s first time IN HOUSE interperting the fragrances through my lense. As I utilise 3-D softwares in my work, I thought I’d try create 3-D bottles. Softwares I used were:
Blender, NomadSculpt and Procreate.
Below are videos and images of my favorite renditions and edits.
With these 3-D works I wanted to explore and bring the brand into the digital realm. Using neon colours and translucent tones, shapes resembling fragrance spills. Floating in space, the bottle landing softly from the heavens.
The Napkin Poetry Review
Performance of Dear Diary in Venice, Italy, early October 2022.
Thank you to The Napkin Poetry Review and Anna Seidel for hosting this fantastic evening.
Dear Diary is, as the title indecates, a text spilling the vulnerable and shameful secrets of my coming of age years. Graphic content like eating disorders, sexual assult and religion. Getting to invite the party to the lounging area of the most incredible plazzo, was truly a delight.
Such an amazing place, a night in Nietzsche’s & Cocteau’s former residence.
Pictures by: James Kelly
Handle With Care, Cookhouse, Chelsea College of Art, London, UK.
Sept 29th-Oct 3rd 2022
Exhibition with: Coco WA, Naistini Valaydon, Shujing Huang and Aleksander Naerbo
Curated by: Mackenzie Montgomery and Clara Greenfield.
Where I do my performance Dear Diary throughout the evening.
handle with care
Masculinity, Gallery 46, Whitechapel
Masculinity, Gallery 46, Whitechapel, London, UK.
Curated by: Wu Dalin and Wen Zihan
I created a work that was super soft and pink, light and sensual, two male presenting individuals floating in perhaps a postcoital bliss, genitalia on display. I cut the figures clean out from the print and placed the figures on the floor. This evokes the feeling of removing one’s self from the beauty and soft lovely space the two male figures could stay in. They are perhaps separating themselves from the feminine in the pressure to feel more gritty and masculine about this act.
Mfa degree show
chelsea college of arts
MA Degree show, Chelsea College of Arts, UAL, London, UK.
4th of July
Performed my text, Dear Diary, an intimate coming of age performance, written from memories and experiences of my life from 12-19 years of age.
The visuals are created by me, 3-D objects created in NomadSculpt, re-edited in Procreate, collages of skies photographed by me and edited in Procreate.
Printed onto foam boards
to let
Marque, Chelsea College of Arts, London, UK.
January 2022, student led exhbition.
Curated by: Linda Liu
Works: Highly stylized digital paintings of interesting faces and angles.
