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Artist Talk & Führung durch die Ausstellung "Uncanny"
Date details
- Date Friday, 26/July/2024 18:00 (1 more date)
- Venue Nüüd Berlin Gallery
- Address Kronenstraße 18, 10117 Berlin-Mitte
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Part of:
Uncanny - fascination and discomfort
Galerie nüüd.berlin presents with the exhibition “Uncanny” Mathias Vef as a new artist of the gallery.
– Angus Love, 2024
© Mathias Vef
In his works, the artist explores the interplay of body and identity, inspired by people who look at their bodies experimentally. Through photography, video and 3D scans, he deconstructs these bodies and uses artificial intelligence to create new surreal works that reflect the ambiguity of being human in the age of AI and synthetic reality. These works are contrasted with works by other artists to create a multi-layered field of discussion.
At Galerie nüüd, the human body becomes an art object
Mathias Vef explores the fascinating interplay of body and identity with the help of people who see their bodies as something changeable. For him, this fluidity is the means of human existence. Through photography, videos and 3D scans, he collects danced forms of ballet dancers, digitally manipulated bodybuilders, transpersons or portraits of sex workers, which he transforms and digitally collages with the help of chemical substances. With these embodiments, he creates fascinatingly surreal images, collages and choreographies that offer a utopian view of our existence. Mathias Vef takes another look at our existence through the supposed utopias of new technologies and AI. With his Uncanny works, he comes extremely close to the synthetic, in a physical sense, but there remains an inner distance. For as fascinating as the new may seem, it often has an uncanny strangeness about it. This ambiguity, this oscillation between fascination and unease, utopia and dystopia, real and AI-generated bodies will manifest itself physically in the “Uncanny” exhibition.
The exhibition “Uncanny - Fascination and Discomfort” is the result of a collaboration between several artists
In order to depict this complex field of tension, Mathias Vef has invited other artists to enter into a dialog with their works. The sculptures by Rein Vollenga add a further dimension to the utopian physicality and completely new works have been created in cooperation with the painter Olaf Hajek. Finally, the gallery is presenting the NUCA project, which has already attracted international attention, to the public for the first time: the first camera to produce live nude images. The AI-supported technology was developed together with Benedikt Groß.
Opening hours: Thursday to Saturday from 1 to 7 pm
Summer break of the gallery: 05 to 21 August 2024
Runtime: Fri, 28/06/2024 to Sat, 31/08/2024
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