Jon Rafman: ₳Ɽ฿ł₮ɆⱤ Ø₣ ₩ØⱤⱠĐ₴
A series of new video installations by Jon Rafman which explore the shared cultural identity in the contemporary era.
Ordet presents Jon Rafman‘s solo exhibition “₳Ɽ฿ł₮ɆⱤ Ø₣ ₩ØⱤⱠĐ₴“, featuring a series of new video installations that explore the shared cultural identity in the contemporary era, which Rafman identifies as the “egregore”.
“Egregore” (2021) is the title of a triptych which is the exhibition’s main piece. The video installation triptych emerges from the internet subculture, its detritus and its unique aesthetic.
Among the others works exhibited, one of the most uncanny is “Facials I” (2022), in which Rafman combines “unwrapped” 3D scans of human faces and miscellaneous objects, creating uncanny and depersonalised portraits.
Rafman refers to himself as a “visual anthropologist” who explores the internet community and its uncanny imagery with a coherent spiritual trajectory in the otherwise chaotic online media landscape.
In his works, Rafman explores today’s shared cultural identity, today’s “egregore” and its contradictions. Rafman‘s characters and stories, like his sources, are anonymous, forgotten, or illusory. They pose the essential artistic question: what does it mean for something to be real?
