BEYOND THE RIVER

(Tallin Art Hall · 2023)

(INSTALLATION)

"Beyond the River” by Alyona Movko-Mägi is an installation featured in the

"Immerse!" exhibition, an international group show exploring the various facets

and implications of immersion made possible through computation. Curated by

Corina Apostol and Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás, the exhibition poses questions about

how knowledge production and spatial relations have been resituated within new

immersive relationships and virtual entanglements that act as mediators of space

and presence, and how we can maintain critical distance when the distinction

between real and virtual, computer-generated and tangible, defy perception.

found textile, projection, machine learning model, directional sound, ceramic and various glazes, copper, raw wool

CREDITS.

EXHIBITION

"Immerse!"

CURATORS

Corina Apostol, Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás

TECHNICAL SUPPORT

Valge Kuup

In this installation, Movko-Mägi brings together clay sculptures representing

Sami warriors, a tapestry depicting a deer family, and a video projection featuring

digital humans as reflections of the animals depicted in the tapestry. The tapestry,

a copy of a traditional gobelain, serves as a metaphor for the way in which ideas

and images can be copied and disseminated in the digital age. Like a meme or

rumor that spreads across the internet, the tapestry has been copied so many

times that it is difficult to trace the original.

By combining these elements, the artist invites viewers to consider the ways in

which the digital and physical worlds intersect and influence one another. The

tapestry and clay sculptures represent the natural world and traditional cultural

practices, while the digital humans as reflections of the animals depicted in the

tapestry represent the ways in which the digital world is shaping and influencing

our understanding of these elements. The intersection of these two elements invites

viewers to consider the ways in which the digital and physical worlds are

increasingly overlapping and influencing one another, and the ways in which

traditional cultural practices are being shaped or transformed in the digital age.

This work explores a range of themes related to the merging of the human and the

digital and the blurring of the boundary between the real and the virtual.