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)
WORK DESCRIPTION:
The Infection series is an exploration into how invisible and virtual forces influence our visible and physical everyday lives.
Capsule-like geometries are prevalent in the graphic and industrial design nowadays. Shiny, crisp, gentle and rounded shapes have surrounded our virtual environments
(websites, apps UI, infographics, CG art, etc.) for the most part of 2010’s-2020’s - a friendly facade for the complex system of interconnections that is the web. Like the
pretty colors that a fungal infection might display from the outside, systems of aggregation and emergence can look deceivingly beautiful and familiar - yet their inner workings
are impossible to fully comprehend or visualize.
In the sculptures, cold and virtual looking capsules are arranged into patterns reminiscent of a primordial sense of natural growth, and clustered onto biological-looking substrates.
They evoke the abstract yet detailed landscapes of cells, spores and tissues seen through a Scanning electron microscope.
The concept of infection is evoked as a continuous struggle between growth and entropy - both at the microscopic scale and at the cosmic scale, both in the physical
world and in the virtual world.