i-Fish

"𝗶-𝗙𝗶𝘀𝗵" is more than an installation; it is a conceptual short circuit. In an era that celebrates dematerialization and the evanescence of the bit, the work performs an act of formal resistance, restoring a physical and almost gravitational dimension to the digital. It serves as a mirror of our contemporary existence: a reality mediated and "packaged" by the devices we carry with us every day. Here, luxury electronics succumb to the liquid element, while a simple plastic bag bears the entire weight of our virtual world.
The work explores the boundary between the organic and the synthetic, questioning our dependence on devices as new ecosystems. It is a provocation intended to highlight the physicality of technology: its weight, its fragility, and its capacity to contain—and at the same time, limit—life itself.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰 𝘄𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘃𝗶𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹: 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸
- The Digital Aquarium Paradox / The goldfish, a symbol of domesticated nature, is confined within a screen which is, in turn, submerged in water. It is the short circuit of the contemporary age: a nature that is mediated, filtered, and "packaged" by our devices.
- Tension and Vulnerability / The work stages a physical conflict: high-end technology succumbs to the liquid, while a humble plastic bag supports the weight of a sophisticated object. This inverted hierarchy generates a sense of anxiety and precariousness.
- Transparency and Fiction / In this scenario, everything is visible, yet nothing is real. While water and plastic maintain their tangibility, the fish remains a luminous fiction. The work reveals how digital transparency is often merely a physical shell for purely virtual content.
- Digital Weight / Identity becomes baggage: the smartphone is transformed into a new "shopping bag" in which we pack our lives, memories, and visual stimuli. A fragile and heavy burden that we carry every day.

𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻
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