KATJA NOVITSKOVA
APPROXIMATION (CHAMELEON THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS), 2022
Digital printing on aluminium D-bond
The large, colourful outline is what Katja Novitskova defines a “photographic sculptural object”, a hybrid of technology and reality, virtuality and biology. It was designed to be part of the Park's cultivated landscape, among its works of art. In nature, the artist explains, a chameleon - like other animals - is an extraordinary “living feeling machine”, “infinitely more intricate than a drone or a robot”. Chameleon Through The Looking-Glass is part of the project titled Approximation, which started in 2010 as a response to the new visual culture which arose with the dawn of smartphones and tablets and mass economy based on likes and views. Novitskova uses sophisticated algorithms generating new images by means of a process that develops from jpgs circulating on the web. With her sculptures, the artist wishes to channel the attention and sympathy stimulated by images of animals online, and bring out empathy towards a world inhabited by us and other creatures.