Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Analisa Teachworth, Shuang Li
Jun24–Jul292022
Sidsel Meineche Hansen's animations feature a hyper-sexualized female avatar named EVA v3.0. Made by freelance 3D designer Nikola Dechev, EVA v3.0 is a royalty-free product that the artist purchased on TurboSquid, a company that supplies stock 3D objects for computer games and adult entertainment. Manipulating this ready-made avatar, Meineche Hansen perverts mainstream 3D adult entertainment and the incorporated ways in which sexuality, gender and pleasure is used as currency in the exchange between tangible, visual and virtual worlds.
Analisa Teachworth ties personal experience and allegorical histories into a unique lexicon used to address the materiali- ty and mythology of displacement. Drawing upon her upbringing in the landscape of abandoned post-industrial Detroit, Michigan and her Puerto Rican ancestry, Teachworth explores collective states between disembodiment and vivifying emptiness. For Company, Teachworth presents an adaptation of Tribute Pallet (2019), an installation made up of a sound piece and animations.
Shuang Li’s work, which includes performance, interactive websites, sculpture and moving image installations, studies various mediums which make up the contemporary digital landscape. Situated in globalized communication systems and inspired by uneven information flows, Li’s work explores how different forms of technology bring us into contact with one another. Projected onto the ceiling of the gallery's lower level space, Æther (2021) marks a continuation of the artist’s reflection on personal subjectivity and its entanglement with an increasingly immersive and omnipresent online culture.