Skin Routine - Installation de Guy Cassiers
Skin Routine
De Guy Cassiers, installation 2023
Installation présentée à l’Opéra de Lille dans le cadre des représentations de Don Giovanni mis en scène par Guy Cassiers
*Skin Routine *is a multidisciplinary installation that focuses on the ideal image of the "perfect" face that many people today are obsessed with and the torturous route to achieving that image.
The installation consists of twenty smartphones that are 51 hung up in a rectangular frame next to each other (four rows of five phones) and suspended at eye level as if the spectator was looking into a mirror. Each mobile phone reveals specific fragments of images that seen together form a collage of a constantly changing face. The content of the images is created from found footage on the internet of faces being transformed by aesthetic make-up tutorials from influencers endorsing products. Through artificial intelligence algorithms, new images will be generated from this found footage.
Each phone can rotate on its axis to follow the music of the overture of Mozart's Don Giovanni. The overture suggests a balance between comedy and tragedy where justice is in pursuit of the principal character, the mercurial seducer. It is a foreboding of his death and destruction. As in the opera of Don Giovanni, the concepts of beauty and horror run parallel to each other and intermingle.
The ultimate aspiration of aiming for the impossible ideal of a manipulated beauty in which everyone begins to look the same, can only lead to disfigurement and pain along the way.
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