AvantGarden Biomes

Hello everyone 🌿
I’m very happy about a few things at the moment:

– the year is finally properly starting
– thank you all so much for the birthday wishes, I really appreciate them
– and I’m very excited about my latest project BIOMES, where I’m returning to exploring anthropomorphization within the ecologies of AVANTGARDEN

Drawing from the historical role of dolls as comforting, symbolic, and relational objects, BIOMES looks at toys, dolls, and avatars as contemporary companions — emotional interfaces embedded in virtual habitats, spaces for presence, care, and cohabitation.

This cluster of topics has been returning in my work since the early Supermono installations (some media art veterans might remember those groups of textile objects resembling plush creatures, reacting with sound and video to our presence). A lot has changed since then.

Being inspired by ecology, popular culture, and technological development, BIOMES inevitably reflects current phenomena — the culture of trinkets, surreal creatures, webcore, cutecore — all approached as sculptural forms and symbolic agents within synthetic environments.

I’m looking forward to sharing more soon and to exhibiting this project in upcoming contexts.