Curator Statement

Exhibition. Grand Palais Ephémère, June 23 – 25

The installative corpus Trash Dwellers is comprised of a series of sculptures, sound and interactive real-time animations. The installation uses the language of sci-fi and speculative fiction to portray a new archaic community of Dwellers in an ecosphere of junk. Born of Trash, a real-time, interactive piece, is a search for the divine in the detritus: visitors join the protagonists of a new speculative tale aiming at provoking a positive reimagining, or (re)building, of our collective future. Part of this narration are also all the other elements of the installation: a VR immersive experience and a series of moist, trashy sculptural artefacts from the otherwordly reality. [Source: https://www.ofluxo.net/artverona-lea-porre-xenoangel-virginia-bianchi-gallery]

• Xenoangel, exhibiting for the second time with VBG after last year, are an artists duo composed of Marija Avramović (1989, Belgrade, Serbia) and Sam Twidale (1988, Hereford, UK). They began working together in 2017 and, despite their very different artistic background and skillsets – Avramović has degrees in Painting and Fine Arts, while Twidale studied music while self-learning programming – they found points in common in their fascination for video games and other-worldly realities. With inspirations that span from post anthropocentrism to science fiction, Avramović and Twidale’s practice stands at the boundary between the digital and the real, creating virtual universes that embody the hybridisation and cross-culture of their intimacy. [Source: https://www.ofluxo.net/artverona-lea-porre-xenoangel-virginia-bianchi-gallery]