Gabriel Massan concerns how we can develop of social, political and sexual liberty separated from the human body, deep in the guts of a biomechanical night club.
Encountering the work of digital artist Gabriel Massan can be similar to getting lost in a especially extreme bar, a multi-sensory overload of disorientating overstimulation that can leave you questioning not just where, however who, you actually are. “I think it’s since there’s no hierarchy inbetween the senses, they’re all at the verysame level, sharing the verysame animation methods,” they discuss. “Sometimes you can view them moving within the exactsame instructions, getting blended with the verysame colours, even however you can see there’s an item there.”
This is definitely by style. Queer club culture is an necessary part of Massan’s practice, a area from which they have constantly drawn essential impact, both priorto and after their moving to Europe. “Seeing the distinction inbetween Berlin and Sao Paulo made me understand how these 2 cities are linked in the method developing area for flexibility, for individuals to examine and develop their own identities, however at the verysame time, they are so various,” they assert.
It’s here, in a area both furtive and fertile, captured in a clash inbetween cultures, that we discover ourselves in the 3rd and last part of Massan’s online residency at Fact. Having finished from from the intense intimacy of the veryfirst episode’s cyberpunk bar to a darker, more spacious areas – from Panorama Bar down into the crowd of Berghain’s primary space – the artist’s virtual golems are locked into the rhythm of another celebration, another opportunity to find themselves.
In this alternate truth Massan is complimentary to concern how we can develop of liberty, whether social, political or sexual, removed from the human body. As a biomechanical angel comesdown past monolithic, mycelial speaker stacks, shaped from the verysame glistening natural matter as the ravers they tower over, we are