Ash Hagerstrand
Venus and the Man Playing God
2021
Digital print
8” x 10”
$400
Website: https://www.jesusluvsmemes.com/
New York, USA
2021
Digital print
8” x 10”
$400
Website: https://www.jesusluvsmemes.com/
New York, USA
ART STATEMENT:
We dream of augmented bodies pushed beyond the boundaries of organic living. Yet when we augment and optimize disabled bodies it causes discomfort and disgust. When placed into practice why is the cyborgian body so disquieting?
This project uses digital landscape, virtual augmentation, and identity curation to explore the fraught relationship that disabled and chronically ill people have with technology. Our positive relationship to technology hinges on associations with wellness—but the cyborgian body is only divine when it masks our mortality.
This project uses digital landscape, virtual augmentation, and identity curation to explore the fraught relationship that disabled and chronically ill people have with technology. Our positive relationship to technology hinges on associations with wellness—but the cyborgian body is only divine when it masks our mortality.
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Ash Hagerstrand is a digital maximalist exploring the intersection of disability and technology.
DESCRIPTION:
Venus and the Man Playing God
In the foreground a pale-skinned woman lies in a bed with white sheets and a magenta-colored blanket. Supported on her left elbow, she faces us. She has an oval face, dragonfly -sunglasses with pale amber lenses, and wavy shoulder length pale blue hair. She wears a white blouse and black underwear. The blouse is unbuttoned to reveal her chest and stomach; her breasts are covered. An unclear tattoo is on her left thigh. In her right hand she holds a glitched cane that is propped against her bent right leg. Behind her is a man in a white lab coat with his back to us. He wears a face mask and reaches for an IV bag. On the wall behind him are three overlapping computer dialog boxes that all display Warning. Shimmering peach colored swag curtains hang on both sides of the dialog boxes. Fat yellow roses adorn the curtain on the left and rest under the woman’s bent elbow.
-description by Teri Grossman
In the foreground a pale-skinned woman lies in a bed with white sheets and a magenta-colored blanket. Supported on her left elbow, she faces us. She has an oval face, dragonfly -sunglasses with pale amber lenses, and wavy shoulder length pale blue hair. She wears a white blouse and black underwear. The blouse is unbuttoned to reveal her chest and stomach; her breasts are covered. An unclear tattoo is on her left thigh. In her right hand she holds a glitched cane that is propped against her bent right leg. Behind her is a man in a white lab coat with his back to us. He wears a face mask and reaches for an IV bag. On the wall behind him are three overlapping computer dialog boxes that all display Warning. Shimmering peach colored swag curtains hang on both sides of the dialog boxes. Fat yellow roses adorn the curtain on the left and rest under the woman’s bent elbow.
-description by Teri Grossman
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