Nada, the fair organised by the New Art Dealers Alliance, opened its 2022 New York edition this week (5-8 May) at Pier 36 after a four-year hiatus in the city. The fair features a robust roster of 120 galleries, non-profit organisations and cultural partners championing the work of emerging artists. Here we highlight some of the eye-catching stands and works, which include a noticeably strong contingent of digital art projects.
Metaverse Petshop (Beta) (2022)
NowHere, New York
One of several projects to incorporate an NFT (non-fungible token) element at the fair this year, this installation by the Japanese art collective Exonemo (made up of the artists Sembo Kensuke and Akaiwa Yae) invites the viewer to “rescue” a virtual pet, releasing it from its cage by scanning a QR code. Pets that are not purchased within 10 minutes morph into new pets, with new AI-generated patterns. Beyond highlighting the increased blurring of the physical and virtual worlds, the ironic work responds to growing worldwide bans on the sale of caged pets, and the ethics of “euthanising” a digital being. The work is being shown in a beta version and will be updated for an exhibition at NowHere in July.
Installation view of works by Jeremy Couillard and Stephen Thorpe at the Denny Dimin Gallery booth. Courtesy Denny Dimin Gallery.
Jeremy Couillard and Stephen Thorpe
Denny Dimin, New York
The British painter Stephen Thorpe and the American digital artist Jeremy Couillard have collaborated to create an environment suggestive of a video game arcade, with Thorpe’s vibrant paintings of arcade games in nature flanking the walls of the booth while Couillard’s video game Fuzz Dungeon streams in video installations at the centre. The game, a mash-up of dystopian images, text and ambient music by the artists Chris Parrello and Lobby Hotel, was previously streamed 24/7 from the basement of the gallery. It is being offered in an unconventional format, as a computer on which the game is downloaded.
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