emelie carlén

ARTIFICIAL DREAMS

Documentation from Bachelor exhibition at Umeå art academy 2015

Video 3 min, steel, polyester hair, chains and silk prints

The sheen surfaces of the fetishized advertising images creates an identification and self invention. In the artificial reality the function has come to lie in the simulation and not in it’s actual cause. Its value is set by our desires upon them and how we come to embody its appearance, becoming its representation.