BIO:
Andrea Samory is a self-taught Italian visual artist based in Tokyo.
His practice is based on a post-internet vision of art as the process of materializing virtual images and intangible forces. He focuses on the biological body in relation to the stereotypical concept of nature, and on how familiar images, when released from their idealized context, can become a mirror for collective anxieties and expectations towards the future.
He combines 3d sculpting and 3d printing with other experimental material techniques, to attract the viewer into a world of natural corruption and uncannyness - provoking the ambivalent feelings of repulsion and fascination, alienation and recognition.
He exhibited, among other venues, at Dimora Artica (Milan), Edicola Radetzky (Milan), DumBO (Bologna), Lixil Gallery (Tokyo), Songshan Culture Park (Taipei)
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WORK DESCRIPTION:
Complex yet primordial emotions such as terror, anxiety, nostalgia are constantly triggered by that “hose to the face” of information that is the Internet.
Intangible and virtual tropes are more and more in control of our physical and primitive bodies.
As humans, we use our ancestral emotive system -evolved to achieve specific and limited survival scopes- to interact with structures that overwhelm it in terms of scale and
extent.
This series is a speculation into how to convey the most intense emotional response through the least amount of hyperrealistic and/or figurative information - testing
our innate, animalistic push towards recognition.
Shiny, multiple, perfect abstract shapes overwhelm and engulf small pieces of flesh, which end up acting as beacons, or signals, for intuition and empathy.
This dychotomy of virtual vs real is a reflection into Social Media as glamourized dystopia, and into how animals and humans reflect their identity onto their own bodies.