AVISPISH | JOAQUINA SALGADO

Avispish (2022) by Joaquina Salgado is the third video presented within the program Pattern, the sixth edition of Digital Video Wall (DVW), an annual project curated by Gemma Fantacci and structured in thematic chapters, aimed at promoting the dissemination and experimentation of digital art.

Avispish is an immersive work that explores the concept of fluid identity and the intersection between digital bodies and sensory perception. Created by Joaquina Salgado, the piece unfolds within real-time synthetic environments, inhabited by hybrid entities that oscillate between the virtual and the organic. The work takes shape as a continuously evolving audiovisual experience, where luminous textures and iridescent materials evoke a sense of both otherness and familiarity. Through the use of emerging technologies, such as game engines and interactive environments, Avispish serves as an inquiry into the possibilities of self-construction in digital spaces, offering a reflection on the fusion of physical bodies and synthetic alter egos. Firmly rooted in the artist’s ongoing experimentation between physical and virtual realms, Avispish extends Salgado’s research into self-perception in the age of real-time imaging. The work invites the viewer to immerse themselves in a universe where corporeality dissolves and recomposes itself continuously, mirroring the increasing entanglement between our real presence and our digital projection.

Joaquina Salgado (Argentina) is a digital artist who combines emerging technologies for the creation of XR experiences, interactive virtual spaces and A/V performances. Her explorations between the physical and dream worlds converge in the creation of synthetic environments using real-time technologies, digital sculpture and photogrammetry, aiming to reflect on human nature, internal programming and the relationship we generate with machines as an interactive mirror.
Joaquina is part of Amplify DAI, an international network of women artists and curators working in digital arts. Her multimedia studies at the Universidad de Artes de La Plata (Argentina) led her to present her work in various exhibition contexts such as digital art festivals, nightclubs, galleries and metaverse. She has exhibited at festivals such as Mutek and Mirage, and collaborated on projects with Marshmallow Laser Feast (MLF). In 2023 she presented in Zurich the motion capture and performance DERIVA for which she worked during her residency in Basel, Switzerland thanks to the support of Pro Helvetia and some months later attended her first solo show DESBORDE at Centro NAVE in Santiago de Chile, Chile. Her last participation this year is with her VR installation FLUIDO.OBJ in TRIENAL APAP7, a Public Art and Urban Heterotopias exhibition in Anyang, Korea, that lasts 3 months in place.

© Joaquina Salgado, Avispish, 2022, video still, courtesy the artist