SARAH FERNANDEZ
Sarah Fernandez
FROM SCANNING TO SKINNING: HOW TO SWIM IN LAYERS OF VIRTUAL SCUM A (SCAM) RESEARCH ON DIGITAL SPECTRUMS
Sarah Fernandez, also called SEVC, is not a digital native, she was born in the early 90s. In a time just before the quick spread of digital culture that fascinates her today. She graduated in Philosophy and Social Sciences at the University Pantheon-Sorbonne where she took a special interest in questioning the logic and reality of our so-called ‘best of all possible worlds’. Her areas of interest circulate around virtual realities and speculative philosophy with an affinity for hybridization and anarchism. She took her obsessions in the visual realms and pursued her research through art when she joined the postgraduate program in the Universidad Nacional de las Artes in Buenos Aires. There she produced several animations that already used a mix of different film formats and techniques. Since 2019, Sevc is investigating new digital ecologies. Through her practice of 3d scanning and modeling she is fictionalizing our shared world to displace it in the virtual realms where new truths can be unveiled. The raw, imperfect and seemingly incomplete outcomes of her experiments offer an experience of estrangement to the viewer by exposing and demystifying current technologies. Her latest piece focuses on the scanning of a female body and the portrayal of her hometown wetlands of Camargue. IG: sevcfernandez sevcfz@gmail.com
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