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Artwork from Motka Ambu's Sleepy Hollow exhibition at Solo Show Online

Artwork from Motka Ambu's Sleepy Hollow exhibition at Solo Show Online

Artwork from Motka Ambu's Sleepy Hollow exhibition at Solo Show Online
Artwork from Motka Ambu's Sleepy Hollow exhibition at Solo Show Online

Artwork from Motka Ambu's Sleepy Hollow exhibition at Solo Show Online
Artwork from Motka Ambu's Sleepy Hollow exhibition at Solo Show Online

Artwork from Motka Ambu's Sleepy Hollow exhibition at Solo Show Online

Artwork from Motka Ambu's Sleepy Hollow exhibition at Solo Show Online

Artwork from Motka Ambu's Sleepy Hollow exhibition at Solo Show Online

Artwork from Motka Ambu's Sleepy Hollow exhibition at Solo Show Online

Artwork from Motka Ambu's Sleepy Hollow exhibition at Solo Show Online

Artwork from Motka Ambu's Sleepy Hollow exhibition at Solo Show Online

Artwork from Motka Ambu's Sleepy Hollow exhibition at Solo Show Online

Artwork from Motka Ambu's Sleepy Hollow exhibition at Solo Show Online

Artwork from Motka Ambu's Sleepy Hollow exhibition at Solo Show Online



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'Sleepy Hollow' is an installation simulating the entrance to the crop-land, gates guarded by the angels hidden behind avatars and aesthetics, the Ethel Cain-core Metamorphose (temps de fille)-dressed vibe-coders stepping gingerly beyond the hinges of their bedroom doorframe and into into the mud and soil. The angels are made of sticks and bondage, their personas woven together with little more than a self-made identity created solely our of solitude and abandonment. Observing the trail-cam footage, one questions how to approach the angels, feeling as though they are more than they represent visually, for the mask is covering the existence of a soul, and the lips of a moe profile picture let themselves not move, though they have eternal feelings aloud to say.

The installation is part of a larger research, the American Denpa project, examining the digital identities of Americans, and how individual seclusion is leading to the visible deterioration of a long fragile national existence.