REAL GIRLFRIEND
Real Girlfriend is a performance-based body of work. Conceived in AR, the videos satirize existing female archetypes created from the male gaze, representing an amalgam of women from the virtual canon.
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Real Girlfriend, A Pantheon (Zodiac Edition)
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Various avatars in the likeness of the artist are encapsulated within the bounds of a device, at-the-ready. Their implied immediacy is countered by intangibility, contradicting their role as desirable, emotional surrogates. In creation, the artist embeds personality flaws, vices, or imperfections in each to query a typical fantasy commodified by culture.
︎Collect the series on Foundation
︎View criticism by Outland Art
︎Featured in She/Her curated by ONBD
for JPG.Space
︎Read about the space on Art in America
︎See the mention in Jing Culture
Special Thanks to
Moriah Rodriguez, Rad Mora, Leslie Chang, Alex Darby, Elisabeth Johs, Daniel Grushkin, and Victoria Stapley-Brown
Huozhu, Real Girlfriend (Day & Night)
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