Eden

Eden is an Augmented Reality portrait of human connection in a post pandemic world. Two oversized figures sit back to back, cut off from the outside world, yet fully engrossed in their digital lives. A steady stream of objects, messages and data flows out from the two figures’ devices and up into the sky.

Throughout the pandemic our lives have existed in a series of virtual spaces which parody our physical selves. We spent our days capturing memories and archiving them on social networks, attending classes in virtual classrooms and endlessly shopping for items, information and attention. In effect, we are all lucid dreaming in an awake state. As we move into 2021, we’ve only begun to discover the societal implications of our year and a half of social distancing. How will the pandemic impact our relationship to our bodies, memories and each other?

This sculpture acts both as a memorial for our collective years quarantined inside, and our rapidly changing relationship to technology in the unknown future to come.