The Sublime 3.0: Fear and Awe
On view: 1 November 2021 until 1 May 2022
Concept Creator: Gabriella Gasparini
Digital Curator: Deen Atger
VR Exhibition Curator and Producer: MiMi Lamine
@ Dust Concept (2021) artworks concept and creation. Redesigned by Cristina Martinez © Courtesy of Dust Concept.
Introduction
Gabriella Gasparini | Ed Peter Traynor | 23 October 2021
Elusive, but powerful. Mysterious, yet pervasive. Chaotic, and at the same time harmonious. The experience of the sublime elicits feelings of grandeur, fear, transcendence, awe and stupefaction – often, all at once.
Today, as we come to terms with ever uncertain times – both existentially and technologically – these overwhelming feelings culminate in a state of perpetual anxiety, disembodiment and displacement, making us both fear for our future but also wonder in anticipation.
As the two big powers of technology and nature merge, New Media and Digital Artists have been grappling with the very same question that has troubled the minds of philosophers, artists and thinkers alike for two millennia: “What exactly is the sublime?”
Ever-changing and capricious, the experience of the sublime continues to lurk behind the brutality of nature, the eeriness of polymorphous entities, the (dis)embodiment of our alienated digital condition or in the cyborgic nature of a technology that keeps encroaching on the natural.
The 11 international New Media artists Agora Digital Art has brought together under this virtual dome, all re-contextualise the historical and contemporary discourses on the sublime, offering us a glimpse into the future condition of humankind.
Artist Wes Viz – Linear Interpolation (2021), Lithuania @wesviz
Artist Sandrine Deumier – Realness Intimate Garden (2019), France @sandrinedeumier
Artist Mária Júdová – Everywhen (2018-2021), Slovakia @mariajudova
Artist Valentina Ferrandes – Victory (2019), UK @valentina.ferran
Artist Bolim Jeon – In the Belly of a Whale (2021), UK @bol.lim
Artist Sian Fan – Spore1 (2020), UK @sianfan
Artist Sandra Araùjo aka S4RA – privacy-GrDN.info (2021), Portugal @s.4ra
Artist Rebekah Boshan Guo – Being in a Sandstorm (2021), UK @Kah_gkah
Artist Nicoleta Mureş Best Hug and What Isn’t There (2021), Romania @nicomures
Artist Linda Loh – Beyond Agog (2021), Australia @__lindaloh__
Artist Dalena Tran – Incomplete (2021), US @dalenaxtran
VR Exhibition
The Sublime 3.0: Fear and Awe is also part of thewrong biennale: Pavilion 37
On view: 1 November 2021 until 1 May 2022
Embark on a journey in the pursuit of the transcendent. Shake, disrupt and re-invent with the presented women artists, who give us new meanings to the grandiose, the beauty, and the sublime.
Thank you to @Metaxu.studio for creating and designing this amazing venue in Hubs Mozilla.
Partners
Related content by Gabriella Gasparini
Credits: the concept of the Sublime and the text wall in the exhibition were both written by Gabriella Gasparini
Who are we?
We’re Agora Digital Art, a London-based volunteer-run certified social enterprise that advocates and promotes the work of women and non-binary artists working in Digital Art.
This exhibition wouldn’t be possible without the active participation of our volunteers. Thanks a million to Deen, Alexandra, Isil, Gabriella, Eve, Elizabeth H., Cristina, Francesca, Sarah and Peter.
