DIGITAL ART PROGRAM x CREATE
25th February - 10th March
For this ninth edition of UVNT Art Fair, the Digital Art Programme has a new ally, the Spanish designer appliance brand CREATE.
One hundred digital marquees throughout the capital will display the works of five young digital artists: Volcia, Sophie Koko, Jackasswedge, Gabriel Massan and Bora. This programme also has the collaboration of JCDecaux, which is providing the screens, and the programmes Madrid Capital de Moda and Todo está en Madrid. The digital works on view in this edition revolve around the central theme of dissident corporeality, exploring how bodies and identities are reattempted outside the normative canons through digital narratives. To this end, the selected artists use contemporary languages with a strong technological character such as animation, social networks and video games, in addition to other influences such as pop art and the world of fashion. The Digital Art Programme is also part of the fair, as the works of these five artists will be reproduced on several CREATE Art Matte televisions inside the tent that hosts UVNT Art Fair.
Sophie Koko
Sophie is a writer and animation director from Bath, England. Her short films have screened and won awards in festivals worldwide including SXSW, BFI, Sundance and the Tate Modern. She has made short films for Hulu, FX, Adult Swim, MTV, BBC and BFI. She has also curated animation for Adult Swim’s Off The Air program entitled ‘Moon’ and Eternal Family’s monthly program. She has been working in development for feature films and TV shows including her own animated TV series with Sony Pictures Animation and Adult Swim.
Volcia
Volcia is a Barcelona-based digital artist with a career that spans fashion illustration and textile graphic design. Throughout her career, she has developed extensive experience in the sector, but beyond commercial work, she has maintained an active artistic practice, participating in exhibitions and collaborative projects, such as a charity collection with Lazy Oaf. His work, focusing on 3D, animation and digital design, creates bright, surreal images that explore the boundary between the real and the imaginary. Through light, shadow and texture, he brings to life worlds that evoke both the playful and the mysterious, while continuing to seek new forms of expression and allowing his art to evolve organically.
jacaksswedge
Jack Wedge is a filmmaker and animator from a small village called Arm Jouth, located on the southern peninsula of Yowuiyogia. The village is famous for its intricate memory sculptures, its rituals of remembering and forgetting, and its unique language, which eschews the use of proper names.
Jack's work focuses on environmental storytelling and world building. He has been making films since an early age and has recently created films, music videos, commercial projects and imaginative characters, including butterfly-faced beings. His aim is to represent environments not just as scenery, but as living, dynamic characters. Jack currently works as a director and animator at Laserdays Studio.
Gabriel Massan
Gabriel Massan (b. 1996 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Berlin. Combining storytelling and world-building, Massan creates worlds that simulate and narrate situations of inequality within the Latin American experience. Framed through a conceptual practice they call ‘fictional archaeology’, and working through 3D animation, digital sculpture, games, sound and interactive installations, the artist challenges warped conceptions of the so-called ‘Third World’ while investigating the possibilities of a subversive otherness.
BORA
Bora explores different mediums that together form a universe where imagination is an activism. A mirror of the present where one can reflect, with a burning wish to open a space for queer representations. Through digital creation, installation, sound or performance, their body of work investigates imaginary landscapes as a way of navigating our reality through tenderness. An attempt on deconstruction and acceptance that invites us to show ourselves as we are and invest our narratives. Bora is a shapeshifter, their practice is multiple and transcend the link between their material and immaterial artistic work. Dimensions becomes fluid: costume making, digital garments, sculptural objects, installations, and sonic explorations, all intertwined and shifting constantly.
