Scary animals mock you from a mirror. They laugh, those disembodied heads, like demonic doppelgangers. This is an art installation called "All the Universe is Full of the Lives of Perfect Creatures".
Viewer’s movement and expressions are mimicked by an animal’s head which is overlaid on the viewer’s reflection. The resulting effect invites inquiry into issues of self-awareness, empathy and non-verbal communication....
That communication isn't simple:
The animal mimics the viewer’s facial expressions, interspersing them with its own independent ones. One feels compelled to in turn enact those animal expressions, lip licking and snarling, fully inhabiting the role, following while being followed.
Being stalked by animal spirits, copied by inhuman imagos, dragged into involuntary imitation: yes, a powerful brew.
This video shows the process in action:
All the Universe is Full of the Lives of Perfect Creatures from karolina sobecka on Vimeo.
Infocult: what we see as digital anxieties is next year's art.
Mirrors and copulation are obscene,
for they increase the numbers of mankind. - Borges
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