SAYA WOOLFALK
Cloudskin 5 (white), 2016
Inkjet print on silk
68 x 41 1/2 in.
Copyright Saya Woolfalk
Photo: Adam Reich
Beginning with an early residency at the Studio Museum Harlem, Woolfalk has devoted her practice to developing her storyworld, a Utopia, inhabited by a hybrid plant-human species she calls the...
Beginning with an early residency at the Studio Museum Harlem, Woolfalk has devoted her practice to developing her storyworld, a Utopia, inhabited by a hybrid plant-human species she calls the Empathics. As her world evolved, she introduced a corporation ChimaTEK where anyone could experience the process of interspecies hybridization. "Part of the ChimaTEK storyworld is that people can use ChimaTEK’s Life Products to wipe their identities clean, download a virtual avatar, and become an alternative self. The 'user information' that the ChimaTEK Corporation culls from this process produces a whole digital world called the ChimaCloud." The Cloudskin represents one such virtual avatar (https://vimeo.com/164324943?ts=0&share=copy. PW: ChimaTEK)