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Somersault invites 19 artists to piece together their alternative understandings of cuteness into a massive test ground.
The space is very much inspired by the aesthetics of second-hand toy shops and indoor playground, especially the dizzying excitement at the moment of entry. It aims at generating a complex and porous structure to approach the theme. Also, it holds a frenetic ecstasy experimenting on difference and repetition between images, and how visitors perceive in distinctive ways.
Indoor Playground
Living Room
Studio Space
Ordering a pixel carrot in McCat. Twitter @1yao1102 RED @1yao1
A e-pet world Twitter @1yao1102 RED @1yao1
When humans find themselves unable to escape from their predicaments in the real world, they can choose to escape into the the final liminal space. This is the purpose of the liminal — to serve as a refuge between the realms of reality and virtuality. The liminal is a fuzzy state, a transition between the 2D and 3D, a crack between the real and the virtual. Its outward manifestation is a proliferating and mutating playground, an endless dream shrouded in halos. The chaotic liminal space points towards the ultimate fantasy of returning to the mother's womb. IG @333333.22
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Wanna live in a world built by Haribo *x* IG @iamallwhite
A selection of Frankenstein teddies from the wacky world of TeddyLand. A land where weird and wonderful hybrid teddies live in harmony. Each teddy is a unique combination of pre-existing teddies to make up its unique DNA - creating the cute character you see today. IG @artymcfly.xo Website: www.TeddyLand.world (coming soon) 😉
Bohan Wang is a big fan of monster and robot culture. He is used to creating wacky and cute characters with illustration and 3d modelling. After binge-listening to Radio head's song Paranoid Android, he created a collection of sequential illustrations inspired by this song about paranoid robots travelling through parallel universes to take down monsters that annoy him. These villains may be projections of Bohan's childhood experiences or visualisations of his dreams, but the robot won't know he's a projection of someone else's dream, he'll just continue on his paranoid adventures. IG @bonham_wang Website: https://bohanwang.cargo.site/
RED @唇纹万岁爷
This drag look was initially created as a part of a collective series celebrating and commemorating the popularity of the Barbie film from 2023. As a giant steampunk barbie doll, the look attempts to capture a cultural moment where kitsch and nostalgia meet advocacy around feminism and femme identities, and in turn becomes an intersectional reflection on femme-presenting gender performance within pop culture. The structural dress was crafted and assembled from flat Eva foam boards, and subsequently coated, decorated and hand-painted upon. The accompanying music piece the artist composed also presents a nostalgically futuristic melody, situating the sculptural 3D drag piece within a retro-avant-garde aesthetic style and headspace. IG @dai_nasty Additional photos by Yin Xin
Recommend four cute songs : Rhuubarbidoo - Múm Pamplemousse - Flavien Berger Truffles sprinkles - Salamanda copain de soupe - Salut c’est cool IG @dazhaodengdeng
A Party on a Butter Strawberry Cookie, Everyone's Invited! IG @dazhaodengdeng
I really like McDonald's Happy Meals, so I imagine the felt tapestry as a tray for the meal. On it, I construct a joyful tiny park, It's not a high-end amusement park; it's the kind of playground you find in the neighborhood. I like the ambiguous 'multifunctional shapes.' For example, a pink slide with a little window can be both a slide itself and possibly a homeless person's home. Another example is when someone can't play on a seesaw; they can imagine a light and ethereal little ghost companion on the other side. IG @dazhaodengdeng
The two little dwarfs with pointy hats in the middle of the picture are having a beautiful dream: In this dream, other little dwarfs wearing hats of various shapes surround them. The little dwarfs hide among houses, caterpillars, clouds, trees, flowers, the moon, and the stars, perhaps singing and strolling. According to folklore, as soon as a little dwarf falls asleep, their friends and the forest in which they reside watch over their dreams in their own way in the real world. IG @dazhaodengdeng
(*ゝ-・)ノ♥♥♥ ・゚:*:゚ IG @dazhaodengdeng
Sing, sing, singsing the most joyful lullaby ⊹.˚₊ ⟢ౖ ☄︎ ⋆ . 𓈒̩͙ ⋆ Ig @dazhaodengdeng
These characters are all from the drawings I made in kindergarten. It describes all my perceptions of animals and soft imagination of cute things when I was a child. IG @_futurescavenger
This artwork depicts a medieval monk at prayer. During the painting process the eyes got bigger and bigger to the point where they take up most of the face which gives the image a hypnotic quality. IG @jimbo__paints
Jumbo Press is a collaborative artist edition project, founded by Jake Lucas and Marta Font in 2018. We are an independent print studio and approach every print project with the utmost care and attention. In an ever-changing digital world, we strive to support, promote, and collaborate with creatives who are also committed to preserving printed matter. IG @jumbopress
3D + 2D Digital Illustration IG @poiandkeely Website: http://poiandkeely.com
"Shapes of the Unseen" is an art project that delves into the beauty of the mundane. Inspired by everyday sights such as dusty outlines on untouched plates, indentations of chairs on carpets and random doodles, I see a world full of unnoticed shapes. I collected these easily overlooked yet warming shapes and transformed them into a new, immersive space through a variety of graphic mediums. Appreciating the subtle patterns that quietly define our lives in a realm where the trivial is magnified. IG @healy.work Website: www.qiuhui.art Contact: ohouqiuhuio9@gmail.com
It is the model I created for a short video in the last day of 2021 with a short audio that I made with the animation. I repositioned the model and made some changes to the materials of this version. IG @tongktongktong
My dog Oscar is the cutest little dog in the world! He and I create our spiritual world together. IG @anankotu
One limited fragile @wild_deerr
In the recurring dreamscape of my mind, I wander as an enigmatic assassin, an ambiguous figure etching marks of finality. Neither a harbinger of nightmares nor a weaver of saccharine sonnets or celestial bliss, my role defies clear definition. It's akin to a narrative plucked from a Japanese novel, where a benevolent raven, with arduous pecks, gifts the eyes of others to a blind girl, enabling her to perceive life through varied lenses, until she dons the eyes of a victim. Do join me in this exploration, Venture beneath the dark velvet curtain. Where the Cheshire Cat, in its elusive whimsy, mirrors the unpredictable, Wagging its tail in anger, growling in delight, Defying the straightforward nature of the dog, who barks in ire and wags in mirth, how you define the mad one? IG @Wild_deerr
In the recurring dreamscape of my mind, I wander as an enigmatic assassin, an ambiguous figure etching marks of finality. Neither a harbinger of nightmares nor a weaver of saccharine sonnets or celestial bliss, my role defies clear definition. It's akin to a narrative plucked from a Japanese novel, where a benevolent raven, with arduous pecks, gifts the eyes of others to a blind girl, enabling her to perceive life through varied lenses, until she dons the eyes of a victim. Do join me in this exploration, Venture beneath the dark velvet curtain. Where the Cheshire Cat, in its elusive whimsy, mirrors the unpredictable, Wagging its tail in anger, growling in delight, Defying the straightforward nature of the dog, who barks in ire and wags in mirth, how you define the mad one? INS: Wild_deerr
I'm waiting for a chance to hand you the shy letter, turning the butterfly into a caterpillar, hiding the blush behind my round finger. Seemingly, my organs were made modular. °◌̊(ᓀ ᴗ ᓂ ू) To you all who stop beside me, please take my letter. I'll send you a shy cuddle and everlasting dolphin love.
It's a sticker trapped in the computer It’s a tattoo flash in the virtual world It’s an avatar to approach non-human. But nothing is it. It’s only something after you open the browser, Neither a piece of compressed cookie Nor a vortex in the chess game that sucks you into. Overall, my symptom is falling too easily into massive visual information. ❅ *‧ଘ(੭ ˵ᓀ . ᓂ˵)੭₊̊‧*₊̊‧* ❅ 是被囚禁在电脑里的贴纸 是虚拟世界里的文身图案 是接近非人类的伪造化身 但什么也不是 只是打开浏览器 不是压缩饼干 也不是把你吸入棋局的漩涡 总的来说,我有一种轻易掉入视觉信息的症状。 IG @__blazer_xj tattoo IG @orbit.palace Website: orbitpalace.com
IG @orbit.palace