EDEN Stories – season 4 – NO SIGNAL
2023 – ongoing
Paintings on canvas and drawings
Variable formats, acrylics, charcoal, graphite on canvas and other mixed media
Installations
Variable formats and media
Description
But where have the collectors gone? This time, EDEN venture onto sex camming platforms, transforming into a model akin to those who, on the web, display their bodies in real time and use connected sex toys for a fee.
The cards and NFTs are no more. EDEN now is embodied in paintings and drawings. It envisions itself as an Olympia, a David, a Kiki de Montparnasse. Its room is never the same, inhabited by devices, cats, and dogs conjured from the realm of the Internet. In camming rooms, pets are sometimes found.
At the start of 2023, EDEN seeks the spotlight. As a nod to sex camming cameras, some paintings are illuminated by an unconnected tripod-mounted video projector, its default blue light revealing certain features and heightening contrasts. The connection fails, and the inscription NO SIGNAL runs across the canvas.
The digital existence refuses to believe in another failure. It searches for a way out of the painting, just as it transitioned from Minitel to blockchains, from blockchains to galleries, from galleries to Venice, from Venice to photo, and from the web to painting. Its truth is out there, somewhere…
(2024) – Acrylic, charcoal and graphite on canvas, 40x30cm / 10x18cm / 146x89cm
EDEN Stories – Season 4 – Que Calor! – 146x89cm, Acrylic, charcoal and graphite on canvas