Rhonda Holberton

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You Are Something the Whole World is Doing 2
To Give Oneself as a Thing
Water Striders
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You Are Something the Whole World is Doing 3
The Last of Human Things

Other projects

Piercing the Curtain View Again for the First Time View Still Life (Transfer Gallery) View STILL LIFE (AIMEE FRIBERG EXHIBITIONS) View SLOW MOTION MIDNIGHT View You Are Something the Whole World is Doing Current YOU BECAUSE FREE INSTANTLY NEW View Breaking Ground, 2023 (Currently Being Installed) View
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You Are Something the Whole World is Doing

The series, You Are Something the Whole World is Doing, imagines the limitations of the physical body in digital space. The bodies represented in the sculptures and videos are not like the bodies we see in movies, advertising, and video games that effortlessly navigate through groundless space. Instead, the burden of weight blankets the human form in the cast silicone sculpture, Water Striders. The video projection, The Ground was Never Stable in the First Place, depicts an exhaustive infinite landscape navigated by a fragmented body in protective gear. To Give Oneself as Thing pieces together sections of a full-body cast; the vacant exoskeleton once having served to both paralyze and to heal. The work navigates planes of slippage between the finitude of biology, and the interminable capacity of virtualization.  

 

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