2024 Liste Art Fair – HEK, Basel, CH. Curated by Sabine Himmelsbach & Marlene Wenger.
From June 10-16, 2024, as a special guest on the List Art Fair, HEK is presenting three artistic positions that use worldbuilding as an artistic tool, showing interactive and immersive works by Mélanie Courtinat, Andy Picci and Moritz Piehl.
In recent years, gaming has become an important field of reference in contemporary art. 3D sculpting software and game engines have become natural tools for artistic expression. Worldbuilding strategies, such as imagining and creating a narrative, characters and an environment for alternative worlds, have also gained traction in discussions around the metaverse. The question of how we shape and move around within these emerging digital landscapes is becoming increasingly pressing.
Works by the three exhibited artists present viewers with a variety of imaginative solutions of how we can inhabit these new digital spaces. Mélanie Courtinat’s Ten Lands (2021) is a walking simulator videogame with 10 incredibly atmospheric immersive landscapes to explore. Cloud 3.0 (2023) by Andy Picci is an exhibition space, studio and virtual home built by the artist in the metaverse Spatial that visitors can dive into with a VR headset. In his installation An Image of Love (2021), Moritz Piehl remixes reality TV and social media into new physical landscapes, questioning how online lifestyles shape physical space.
Artists involved: Melanie Courtinat, Andy Picci, Moritz Piehl.
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