Alvaro Campo: Untitled (Tunnel)
Untitled (Tunnel), 2021, digital collage on wallpaper
September 2021
Alvaro Campo: Untitled (Tunnel)
opening Monday september 6 at 9am - 10am
Human perception evolves closer and closer to technology, becoming an inseparable part of what defines our daily experience, what does it mean for our relationship with reality?
As our relationship to the physical world recedes, the seemingly inevitable tunnel to cyborg-ness opens in front of us. With the help of our smartphones, we are all digitalizing the world in unison. Together with our thousands of friends we are creating, conquering, colonizing, and making the digital realm our new home.
Literally everyone on the planet has the capacity to detach themselves from the physicality of time and space to acquire extended senses through information on a global level. Physical reality seems to be less and less prioritized in the hierarchies of perception as humanity retreats into the infinite possibilities of the digital. Most humans are now living their lives in a digital environment that they use to make sense of the physical environment.
Nevertheless, we still exist in the world of the senses. On this planet our bodies are inevitably connected to experience and exist in a sensual dialogue with the world in the here and now that we share with our fellow humans as well as with all other species.
At the end of the exhibition period, this work will be entirely liberated from its existence in time and space. It will be reborn as an NFT in the digital realm, attached to the blockchain, but without its physical form.
Alvaro Campo is an artist based in Stockholm, educated at The International Center of Photography, New York and at the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm. Notable solo shows include Time Observatory at Uppsala Art Museum (2020) and The Persistence of the Everyday (2015) at Hangmen Projects, Stockholm. He is currently finishing Invisible Landscapes, a large-scale public commission at a new swimming pool complex in Varberg.
Kl. 9 is an exhibition program run by Jenny Danielsson and Max Ronnersjö. A new art installation is presented the first Monday of every month between 9am and 10am. For further information, please get in contact: Instagram: @kl.09:00, jenny@theartword.com, ronnersjo@gmail.com
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Throughout September 2021, Kl. 9 presented Untitled (Tunnel), a site-specific art installation by artist Alvaro Campo. The installation featured a photo wall picturing a digital collage based on an image of the site. On the last day of September, the opportunity to experience the installation Untitled (Tunnel) in the flesh ceased to exist, and a new version of the work began to live online, in the shape of a digital token, an NFT.
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