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Fiction is Within Us
Sculpture, Photography
2023
Sc Bronze
61 × 46 x 41 cm
Mumok, Wien
© 2019 Artists Rights Society (ARS),
New York Photo © mumok Museum,
Stiftung Ludwig
Wien
Project Description
The 3-D printed sculptures are a merging of the Sacchorytus organism (which was once believed to be the oldest human ancestor) with a Homo-Sapien skull, through the use of Artifical Intelligent pattern recognition networks. This combination humanites present day biological state with a fictionalized past using AI allows for a re-positioning of our evolution through fiction practice.
The underwater photographs return the speculative skulls to their original enviornment, that of the ocean and its ancient primordial soup. Through the technique of inversion, the images allow for a renewed perception of reality, questioning the origins of mankind, and their perception in the present.
The 3-D Printed sculptures were installed on a coral-reef, integrated into the oceanic landscape as an act of hybridizing the digital and physical realms, merging fiction and reality.
They exist there till this day, and have grown algae and corals on their exterior, becoming vessels of exchange with the life forms around them. The sculptures were 3-D printed using AllPHA Natural Filament made from bacteria, and will eventuallly biodegrade (without leaving microplastic) among the many life-forms of the reef, egnaging a more-than-human timescale and lifespan.