Lilian M Kreutzberger

My ongoing project Whiteandgold && Blackandblue is focused on how our perception, representation and notions of surface materialize out of the ever-advancing digital world in to the physical and visual experiences in lived space. I speculate on a future in which architecture, furniture, plants and other objects will be the surface upon which digital, moving and still images will be displayed. In creating this new notion of materiality, the shape, volume and function of surfaces will be collaged together into folly objects and paintings. This is not unlike the ubiquitous digital screen experience where surfaces and functions are enmeshed and constantly shifting both responsively and autonomously. The artworks will play with and manipulate the physical boundaries belonging to the material world—pursuing the question, if the digital space was initially constructed to mimic the material world then how is the material world responding to the now digitally lived experience? Furthermore, what qualities of material and digital reality become obsolete? Gravity, texture and other three-dimensional qualities will become fluid, afloat, illuminated and illusive. For example, by explicitly reducing the material world into decorative elements then declaring them functionally and conceptually obsolete as decoration, I question the value we give to the material world in relation to digital representations and vice versa. These works are digital skins that not only represent reality but becomes a reality itself.