Apa-Cita?
of Otherness and Empty TransformationCGI moving image
single channel, stereo sound. Full HD. 1920x1080p
[15:15]
Commission by PETRONAS.
For Old School x New Rules. PETRONAS Gallery.
@Not merely an avatar; he is a player-character without a game, a poetic figure trapped in symbolic machinery. He embodies the logic of gamespace, where life is structured by scores, systems, surveillance, and the fantasy of agency. His environments are not settings but ideological terrains, encoded with logics of control and aestheticized suffering. Not to win or lose, but to experience a mythos of failure, to confront a machine that runs on melancholia and meaning-loss. #Melancholic classical. #Poignant and theatrical. #Emotional dissonance.
@Not to ask what the virtual is, but what it performs. Like the shaman who once journeyed across thresholds of vision and spirit, today’s digital figure traverses symbolic realms structured not by myth alone, but by code, protocol, and feedback loops. The shamanic role has not disappeared; it has been virtualized, dispersed across networks, lodged in scripts, and filtered through mesh renderings. In this sense, the artist/architect/worldbuilder no longer crafts an “original” work; they construct interfaces between domains of perception = spaces we might call the sacred of the simulated.
