The Avatar
The avatar, as a mask and disguise for which anyone can be anything, may appear to be an instrument of freedom, revenge and catharsis. But no: it imprisons and forces us into a false and inconsistent reality. In his investigation, White Blood reveals the deception and through art staging the opposite process. It is the avatar, the fictional character who exists only in the metaverse, who now emerges to become more concrete and tangible than reality itself. The shapeless magma of carbon fiber lends itself perfectly to immortalizing the moment in which the lie is revealed and becomes a physical object by appropriating a material, recycled carbon, which belonged to something that is no longer in the world and which now adapts to represent an object of the imagination that comes to life.
Dimensions: 80cm x 80cm x 120cm (h)
Material: Recycled carbon from racing origin
Technique: hand making, hand polishing
Artists with avatars return to explore the very genesis of their artistic strand and, therefore, the relationship between real and virtual. Classical Latin has two terms to distinguish as many types of blood: sanguis, which flows within the human body, and heart. The latter denotes that which springs from wounds.
Whiteblood represents the white cruor that gushes from the slits created in this new and complex reality where lacerations albeit virtual are painful, violent and deadly and our avatars become more vulnerable than our bodies, which retreat in favor of the digital ego.
The work is shrouded in conceptual and cultural substrates generated and developed primarily within cyberpunk literature where a world not unlike our current society was imagined, worlds divided and interpenetrating where the digital ego dominates and predominates and the real attempts to imitate the virtual. The image recalls Han solo of the Star Wars saga in the “carbonite,” a film saga that is now considered for many fans a religion that generates proselytes and communities founded on the unreal.
The artists’ work nevertheless arouses feelings of anxiety and anguish, a being penetrates our reality with almost residual anthropomorphic characteristics, where science and technology become ends and not means.
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