Title
#EverChangingFacade
Dimensions
Variable (Sculpture: 5’x5’x5’)
Media
Sculpture, Video Projection mapping, Sound
Year
2020
Project Description
In this installation Khoshooee pulls from Iranian pop culture to contrast its humor, liveliness and, at times, malicious quality against sober, animated automatons. The characters and their soulless movements are projected upon an otherwise rigid, amorphous structure.
Visual content from social media (specifically images pulled from Explore on Instagram which are sensitive to where you live, who you follow, and what you "like") are digitally layered with Khoshooee’s own self-portraiture, animated, and project mapped upon the surface of the sculpture—through 4 projectors. The piece is a convoluted and ever-shifting digital skin of algorithmic content projected upon the static and tangible aggregate of familiar yet foreign forms.
Examining the disjunct between digital and physical space, mind and body, body and language, language and second language, the piece looks at the struggle to communicate and to navigate as an immigrant in the US, and as a human in the virtual realm. Our virtual identity is the product of all that we search, view, like, and share. Although physical borders do not exist within social media, market driven data analytics have pigeon-holed us as citizens of a virtual universe. In #EverChangingFacade Khoshooee examines the role social media plays in shaping one’s identity in the global contemporary culture.