AR Gender Diversity during Art Basel Miami Beach

An AR artwork during Art Basel Miami Beach dedicates itself during the 28 November to 10 December 2022 the topic of gender diversity.

During Art Basel Miami Beach, Art Fair Miami in the Wynwood Art District presents for the first time a resin artwork entitled Gender Diversity, which was enriched with digital elements in augmented reality AR through the co-creation of two artists. The digital work can be experienced simultaneously with the physical artwork. The exhibition starts on 28 November 2022 and runs until 10 December 2022.

Stefanie Etter, resin pioneer from southern Germany, author of the award-winning standard work "Resin Art", created the diptych Gender Diversity in 2022 with a material mix of resin, charcoal, spray and others, processed with spatula and a special flow technique: 2 twin-like mirrored figures, surrounded by multi-layered, gestural backgrounds with incorporated lettering.

AR adds a new dimension

Sarah Montani lic. iur., digital pioneer from Switzerland with a long-standing international exhibition profile with an exceptionally explorative, future-oriented way of working, adds another dimension to the double image with augmented reality in a new way of seeing: she additionally places it in virtual space and therefore expands not only reality but also sense.

Gender Diversity addresses questions about contemporary urban life with its challenges and definitions of the coexistence of gender diversity. 2 figures, or one, doubled, split - perhaps looking at us, past each other, perhaps provocative, perhaps insecure, or yet quite neutral against the graffiti background of a big city. In them, all the doubts and struggles between gender and tolerance and the often harsh, rough reality. They are conjured up virtually in a partly translucent, partly differently coloured sphere, framed, perhaps figuratively captured, and can - without an additional app - be placed and positioned spherically anywhere with any smartphone: on a wall, in the sky, on the earth - reality reinterpreted.

The two artists and power women explain their joint work

Stefanie Etter: "When creating this diptych, I had the polarities of our lives in mind, also all the thoughts about gender diversity. Every person should believe in themselves, no matter what worldview, what skin colour, what hairstyle. The diptych is like a mirror, it is one with the viewers, and yet they are two separate works and worlds. This symbolises the brokenness we experience again and again. With a special crackle paste I have depicted a kind of straitjacket, these are our fears and the inner and outer constraints that constrict us. With this, I make a plea for freedom and trust and living in a crazy world".

Sarah Montani: "What is the vision of the common? What unites us all is that we all grew in women's bellies. We are also united by the universal claim of human rights, that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. Spheres have always fascinated me and can be seen in all my creative phases. With the spheres I want to show the unity, the commonality. I want to invite us to identify with the unifying idea of being human - away from specific group identities. The new art is made of bits. It expands our reality, which is made of atoms. And our individual tuned-in reality that exists in our heads."

Source: guetsel