D.B.🥀 | BÆUTY IZ CH∆ØZ is on show in the metaverse OnCyber. Click the image to visit the gallery.
D.B.🥀 | BÆUTY IS CH∆ØS
D.B.🥀 | BÆUTY IS CH∆ØS presents beauty in its raw and unpredictable form through glitch-erased images downloaded from Instagram depicting beauty industry influencers and turned into art.
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RƏ/program the F∅®MUL∆.
DƏ/code the CØD3.
DƏ/construct the CØNcəpt.
Praise the atypical • Redemption of the weird • Free the creep •
This glitch art collection challenges traditional notions of perfection and the standard of beauty presented on social media platforms like Instagram, where beauty influencers present a curated and often unrealistic version of perfection. This project embraces imperfection and presents beauty in its raw and unpredictable form by glitch-erasing the photos' original subjects and turning those images into artworks depictions of unrecognizable and unknown figures. The redemption of the atypical, the marginated, the excluded ones, those who are believed to be the "losers" just because do not fit the beauty standard of success and wealth. The artist sees beauty as a cause of chaos and disrupts the classical thought of beauty in art as harmony and equilibrium that also relates to nature, society, and the whole universe. Our culture of beauty generates social chaos, often pushing people to commit extreme acts against others against themselves.
This art project re-codes beauty and all of its meanings. It challenges the societal standards of perfection and beauty. By using a glitch art technique, the artist erases portraits and selfies of Instagram influencers from the beauty and wealth industry who promote their image as a symbol of success and perfection. These influencers adhere to strict photography standards and use programmed filters to create the illusion of flawlessness. But with the use of glitch art and generative glitch script, the artist deconstructs these digital images, effectively erasing the original and creating a new sense of beauty that defies fake perfection. This glitch aesthetic represents a reclaiming of the right to not be perfect, and a celebration of atypicality, uniqueness, and rarity. It sends a message of inclusivity, advocating for diversity and a departure from the constraints of beauty industry standards.
Amidst the perfect digital glow,
Where influencers' faces are all aglow,
With filters that enhance, retouch, and shine,
A beauty standard that's so finely designed.
A world of perfection staged to a tee,
But what about the beauty that's meant to be,
Raw, imperfect, and truly unique,
Where individuality is not a feat.
Enter the artist with a glitchy hand,
Who's taking control of this beauty brand,
Erasing the code, reprogramming the art,
To reclaim a new sense of beauty, a new start.
The glitches they use, they're more than a script,
They erase the perfect images, the beauty myth,
And reveal a world that's not just divine,
But one that's inclusive, rare, and fine.
So come and join this revolution, this call,
To embrace the imperfect and break down the wall,
Where beauty is more than just a mirage,
And another miraculous origin takes the stage.
Beauty as a formula, as a programmed/coded paradigm, is defeated and erased. Each portrait of the series is created by downloading the photos of beauty influencers from Instagram. By the use of glitch art databending and generative scripts, the original images are erased, and with it also their programmed/standard photographic gestures and canon of beauty. Once influencers disappear from the images, what we have left are lost souls in the machine with no identity. They live in our society's short circuits and our toxic paranoiac idea of beauty because beauty is chaos.
As part of the Disordinary_Beauty gallery show, 10 works were exhibited at Galleria Biffi Arte in Piacenza. The show was produced by Fuori Visioni with the support of the Banca di Piacenza.Curated by Carolina Moncaleano, Mariangela Vitale a Carlotta Biffi. The show was presented in Italy from 5 Nov to 28 Nov. The work Unknown 24 and Unknown 25 were the two main works of the show.
This stage of the project is available on the Ethereum blockchain as NFTs.
The Genesis piece is available as NFT on the secondary market at Foundation.
Watch the video documentation of the first solo show of the project at Galleria Biffi
in Piacenza with Fuori Visioni Contemporary Art Festival. LINK