A place where relics of the digital age come to strand. Debris found drifting on the web, collected and assembled into an island that doesn’t exist.
Its inhabitants are objects, places and people digitised through photogrammetry and shared on the internet. They are now illusions, copies in motion,
ghosts of an original; their purpose is unspecified, their history forgotten.
Just like Louise Nevelson and Joseph Cornell are considered artist-collectors for
their work in the 50s and 60s, this island is made up of found objects, decontextualized
and repurposed, arranged inside a box or a frame. If the objects in Cornell’s boxes are found in thrift stores
or by the side of the street,
the ones on this island are stumbled upon browsing the internet, in the “sort-by-newest” tab or among the last
pages of sites like Sketchfab.com.
As they drift, their polygons become eroded, the textures distorted, and yet, their imperfections convey a sense of
familiar warmth, almost nostalgic, like the grain of film or the crackle of a vinyl record.
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