Exploring emotion’s through technology.
Juliette Tuyttens is a Belgian mixed media and installation artist studying at Luca Brussel.
I work out a lot of my personal experiences through digital media that share me as a person and as a woman. Outside the visual arts, I have a strong interest in curatorial practices and performance art.
‘‘Home’’
‘Home' visualizes the false idea of perfection or the ideal place.
Instead of solving the big problems, they are glossed over and hidden from view. I dealt with false excellence in my life with a family member who was very attached to the idea of constantly creating the ideal family. When I came out of the closet at the age of 15 and expressed who I had always been, I no longer fit into the vision of the ideal child and was no longer wanted. Instead of facing reality in the years that followed, this person hid me from everyone around him. In a sense, I no longer existed. All that remained were pictures of someone who didn't even look like me, a child who no longer shared my name. Just a vague resemblance and memories of repressed unwantness. So the one who tried to create a perfect family destroyed it beyond repair.
Leuven ‘‘The Eternal Door’’ 2022
Created from faulty 3D scans of my house, this artwork is almost an artificial machine in search of perfection. It analyses in a loop the search for the ideal house. The scattered remains of the house are disordered and almost disturbingly smooth. In its search for the dream landscape,
it slowly moves to an abstract state in which the rooms have merged into a state of pure chaos. Black and white hard shapes contrast with the distorted space.
The camera continues to search for a result, but in the end, the result is a void, a nothingness that only returns to the original - an endlessly repeating process. Sincerity cannot be created without confronting it at its core.
Color
1st Years Bachelors Show Luca Brussel
These moving images show my experiments in bringing emotion and life to 3D models. This work focuses on color and how it affects movement in being. Making the untouchable tangible. This model is part of a three part series focusing on hyper-realistic 3D models where the line to a real person 'seems' thin.
The model never looks you directly in the eye. She repeats the same head movement in each clip. The colors and lighting conditions change as she starts the movement again. The fact that she is doing the same thing over and over again is not noticeable because the color and light change the image and the associations that can be subconsciously made with her.
How are you?
How are you? A basic question we ask people every day. It is usually meant in a very friendly way, or just as a form of courtesy. But the question itself is empty. We just expect the typical answer: I'm fine, and then we ask back: And you? and get the same empty answer.
This can be traumatic for the suffering person. It opens the door for sympathy or support, but it's not explored. And it leaves vulnerable souls feeling more alone while hurtful feelings linger. Do we really want to hear the truth?
The sound recreates the once well-intentioned question "How are you?" in the cacophony of voices that care but don't. The sound comes from eight different directions. Images flash in every corner of the three walls. The questions become increasingly irritating.
Your neck begins to ache as you try to follow the sounds as they travel from one end of the room to the other. But it doesn't want an answer, it just wants to keep bombarding you.
Lana
Lana in her original version was an artificial AI model, someone authoritative, the perfect artist, she does not stutter, nothing is done without purpose and she has no fear. She is constantly analysing, learning, but something about the authority in the original work intrigued me and yet I wanted to make her accessible and real, how do I make her one of us? To show her as she is in her pain, anger and fear.
To show that even an idealistic 3D model has the ‘flaws’ that we have in our standards of beauty. This is the second part of a three part experiment.
1st Years Bachelors Show Luca BrusselExhibitions
Belgium Playdate - Feb 2022
Inflation Station - Jun 2022
Village People - Aug 2022
The Eternal Door - Dec 2022
How are we? - Jul 2023
In Dice a Workplace - Mar 2024
Veiled - Apr 2024