Vitória Cribb
1996 | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Lives in Rio de Janeiro
Visual artist with a degree in design from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). In her video works, she creates digital and visual narratives permeated by techniques such as the creation of 3D avatars, augmented reality filters and immersive environments. The investigation of social behavior in relation to the development of new technologies in contemporary society and the quest to transpose her subconscious into the digital environment are central issues in the works developed by the artist over the last years. She won the PIPA Prize (2022), and recently participated in group exhibitions at institutions such as the Denver Art Museum, USA (2022); Framer Framed, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2022); Museu Nacional da República, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2021); and Center d'Art Contemporain Genève, Switzerland (2020). She lives in Rio de Janeiro.
BUGs, 2022
Installation
The installation consists of a piece of digital animation presented on an LED panel and a digital print on wallpaper. Both the printed image and the computer-animated video depict the “vigilant” avatar used in other works—a cybernetic character who inhabits virtual space, whose body is covered with eyes and ears, and who continually watches and listens to us through digital technologies. If through the digital body of this character the artist addressed unbridled online surveillance, in BUGs, the unexpected failures and errors of digital machines are alluded to by the virtual body of a beetle, according to the synonymy of the work’s title. The excesses of machines and of human and insect bodies contrast with the aseptic aspect of the digital interface and the online existence. Behind the apparent cleanliness, however, there is the anxious and frightening nature of the mixing between human and inhuman through technology.