Snow Yunxue Fu merges painterly ideas of the sublime with experimental digital media, using topographical computer-rendered animation installations to probe physical and metaphysical limits. Her digitally-constructed liminal interiors engage a metaphoric relationship with physical perception, and have appeared at the Venice Biennial of Architecture, Thoma Art House, The Other Art Fair, Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennial, The Wrong Biennial, Kunsthalle Detroit, and more. Fu originally trained as a painter. (The National Art Museum of China even acquired one of her early pieces in 1994, making her the youngest artist represented in the museum’s collection.) Though she now works primarily in Maya and Realflow software, Fu carries an appreciation for the multicultural history of landscape painting with her as she expands it into a contemporary context: her CGI animations and VR experiences are inspired by both the allegorical, romantic paintings of Caspar David Friedrich and the traditional Chinese landscape paintings that blur individual and linear perspectives in voluminous “virtual” space. #NASA, #satellite, #sunvideo, #grids, #abstraction, #imaging, #simulation, #postphotograpic, #spacesounds, #thegalaxy, #digitalspace, #spheres, #particles, #time

Horror Vacui - From Latin 'fear of empty space' or 'fear of emptiness’ is a term used in Middle ages to describe the artistic obsessions of filling every surface without leaving any empty space. This concept relates on the one hand to the frenetic expansion and hyper-development currently undertaken by mankind; On the other hand, it references Buddhist philosophy as the way in which human beings are limited in grasping the 'true nature of things and events'; All phenomenons experienced by man are biased and therefore not absolute, All is interdependent and shifting at any given moment. The film juxtaposes the Earth’s untouched lands and human beings’ artificial settlements. Using a back-and-forth of computer-aided designs, real images and digital reconstructions of forests, mountains landscapes and overpopulated metropolitan areas, Horror Vacui reflects upon the alienation from nature and the resulting break of the harmonious balance of the ecosystem. The video blurs the distinction between reality and a digital recreation of it; It questions the act of perceiving, the notion of 'reality' by mixing CGI techniques and real footage. Commissioned by the Institute of Contemporary Arts London and Channel 4 Random Acts.


Horror Vacui - øøøø (Matteo Zamagni)

Gilberto Gil ao vivo em Perúgia, Itália, 1994 Flora (Gilberto Gil) Imagino-te já idosa Frondosa toda a folhagem Multiplicada a ramagem De agora Tendo tudo transcorrido Flores e frutos da imagem Com que faço essa viagem Pelo reino do teu nome Ó, Flora Imagino-te jaqueira Postada à beira da estrada

Gilberto Gil - Flora
Perugia, Italy, 1994