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If only you could see what I‘ve seen with your eyes, Estonian Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale

If only you could see what I‘ve seen with your eyes, Estonian Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale
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If only you could see what I‘ve seen with your eyes, Estonian Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale

Estonian pavillion 57th Venice Biennale 2017

Venice

2017

Type

Solo
Estonian pavillion 57th Venice Biennale 2017

If Only You Could See What I've Seen with Your Eyes addresses the relationship between the domain of seeing, bigdata-driven industries, and ecology in times of biotic crisis.

Currently, vast aspects of human and nonhuman lives are being registered and modeled on an environmental scale. Collection and processing of data has become a toll used to map all possible surfaces, moments and spectra on Earth and beyond from faces to biological cell walls to dust on Mars.

This is performed by human, and increasingly, robotic agents, and is directed at people, both wild and captured creatures, and nonliving processes. Seeing has become an expanding extractive industry. In the process new visual languages, commodities and life forms are being generated reflecting back to us our often violent entanglement with the world: patterns of embryonic development in mutated lab-test worms, live streamed flows of CO2 gas across the planet, or a group of near-extinct animals passing by a tree and noticing the tracking camera.

Katja Novitskova works from new forms of imagery taken from the realm of present day visual rappresentation. This exhinition explores this radical new articulation of the role of the image, and how constant planetary scale mediation gains an ecological dimension.

The exhibition' s title is a quote taken from a conversation in Ridley Scott's cult sci-fi film, Blade Runner (1982), between the replicant Roy Batty and designer Hannibal Chew - who created his eyes.

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Approximation (corn snakes hatching)

Digital print on aluminum, cutout display, acrylic glass 131 x 245 x 35 cm Courtesy of the artist;

Pattern of Activation (embryogenesis)

digital print on aluminum, cutout display, acrylic glass worm approx: 247 x134 cm eggs: 70 x 48 cm (each)

Pattern of Activation (eyes of the world)

Digital print on aluminium, cutout display, 2 speakers, baby swing elements, robotic bugs, MP3 player, cable hose, epoxy resin, sound, nail polish, digital print, polyurethane resin, rotating ceiling hook, lace, 7 broken silicon wafers, epoxy clay, nail polish, acrylic case, wooden shelf, video projection. Dimensions variable

Pattern of Activation (biotic crisis)

Digital print on aluminium, cut out display, aluminium, spray paint, 2 digital prints, polyurethane resin, rotating ceiling hook, lace, video projection Dimensions variable

Pattern of Activation (Mamaroo nursery, dawn chorus)

This large installation features a group of six robotic-looking sculptures, a video projection and a sound installation. The sculptures gently move and buzz in front of what appears to be a simple PowerPoint slideshow, their bodies all connected to the power source through what look like long intestinal cords. They are, in fact, repurposed Mamaroo electronic baby swings from the popular brand 4Moms. Despite the fact that they hold things like ruptured birth sacks, the babies they were supposed to be carrying are nowhere to be found. Any elements that might signal their original function are missing: they are decorated in synthetic and organic materials like transparent polyurethane shapes with images of CTI brain scans and protein models, robotic crabs, silicon fish baits, tree fungi, etc. Some of their laser eyes are directed at the projection, whilw others look out into the exhinition space.

Biotic crisis

Digital print, polyurethane resin, rotating ceiling hook 120 x 80 x 0.5 cm Courtesy of the artist; Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin

Approximation (C. Elegans, hooked)

Digital print on aluminium, Cutout display, acrylic glass 52 x 220 x 6 cm Courtesy of the artist; Kraupa- Tuskany Zeidler Berlin

Approximation (corn snake hatching)

Digital print on aluminium, acrylic glass, cutout display 210 × 190 × 40 cm Courtesy of the artist;

Approximation (C. Elegans, hunting)

Digital print on aluminium, acrylic glass, cutout display 90 × 200 × 5 cm Courtesy of the artist;

Approximation (C. Elegans, wiggly worm)

Digital print on aluminium, acrylic glass, cutout display 219 × 138 × 40 cm Courtesy of the artist;

Approximation (5iu4.0 chimera surface ligand, fruit fly)

Digital print on aluminium, acrylic glass, cutout display 250 × 170 × 60 cm Courtesy of the artist; Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler Berlin

Approximation (5dl5.0 chimera surface ligand, fruit fly)

Digital print on aluminium and acrylic glass, cutout display 166 x 150 x 60 cm Courtesy of the artist; ING Collection

Approximation (2jk4.0 chimera surface ligand, fruit fly)

Digital print on aluminium, acrylic glass, cutout display 195 × 153 × 60 cm Courtesy of the artist; Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler Berlin

Approximation (baby mouse)

Digital print on aluminium, acrylic glass, cut out display 310 × 104 × 60 cm

Approximation (C. Elegans, red trio)

3 Digital print on aluminium, acrylic glass, cut out display 180 × 300 × 40 cm Courtesy of the artist;

Approximation (polar bear)

Digital print on aluminium, acrylic glass, cut out display 148 × 226 × 38 cm

Approximation (trail camera night vision, lioness eating an elephant carcass)

Digital print on aluminium, acrylic glass, cut out display 141 × 300 × 45 cm

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