OUR FUTURE exhibition artist | MAYTE GOMEZ-MOLINA
The future is not something that will come one day. The future is happening already, every day.
I believe that technology has many good things to offer to us, but also many devices and websites are designed so we don’t stop looking at them. Therefore, we become addicted, and start seeing the world as technology is teaching us to see it.
Broken (玻璃碎了) is a five-image series inspired by the idea of the body as a puzzle. Distortion, fragmentation, and shattering have happened to bodies that now appear incomplete and divided, yet they still look at us with human eyes. Digital Frankenstein’s, these figures are searching for an outside spectator that brings their pieces back together, waiting to be whole again. These images are inspired by the way identity is broken and multiple in social media and digital spaces, and how hard it is to become who we want to be when so many people are looking at us.
The other work is a single image work called New Martyrs, a picture that imitates a picture by Caravaggio called Saint Cataline of Alexandria, a woman who died because of the things she believed in. In my interpretation of Caravaggio’s work, the saint is surrounded by new temptations (likes, followers, and other things of the digital world) and must be strong to don’t be fooled by them.
Mayte Gomez-Molina (Madrid, 1993) is a Spanish new media artist and writer whose practice is based in 3D animation, VR and digital video appropriationism as tools for expanded poetry. Her work explores the body as a political subject and perception as a social agreement. Her work has been exhibited in the Supernova Digital Art Festival (Denver, US), the Future Bodies Symposium (Virginia, US), the VII Frame & Frequency Show (Maryland, US) and at Tabakalera Media Center (Spain), La Casa Encendida (Spain), AIFA Artificial Intelligence conference (Luxembourg). Thanks to a Fulbright Scholarship, she did her MFA in Film, Video, New Media and Animation at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is currently working as a researcher and animator at Karlsruhe’s Institute of Technology.
