Vitória Cribb: ‘BUGs’
Vitória Cribb, BUGs, 2023. 5 min 40 sec. © Courtesy Vitória Cribb
About the Work
Vitória Cribb introduces a cybernetic character whose body is covered with eyes and ears, and who continually watches and listens to us through digital technologies. With BUGs, the artist addresses unbridled online surveillance, and its inherent but unexpected failures and errors. The film ends with the character’s transformation from a humanoid to a mutant, part bug (nature), part car (technology).
About the Artist
Vitória Cribb (b. 1996; based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is an artist whose practice investigates contemporary social behavior in the face of the development of new visual information technologies. In her recent works, Cribb uses the digital narrative as a way to represent reflections related to digital presence, surveillance, digital bodies, self-expression and psychological damage in cyberspace. Cribb was awarded a Fellowship Residency Award at the Wexner Center for the Arts (2023) and PIPA PRIZE - Brazilian Contemporary Art Prize (2022). Cribb’s works are part of the permanent collections of Denver Art Museum and Brazilian National Museum of the Republic. Recent exhibitions include 3rd Mayrit Biennial, Espejito Espejito (Madrid, 2024); 22nd SESC Videobrasil Biennial (São Paulo, 2023) and Bangkok Art Biennale 2022 – Virtual Venue (Bangkok, 2022).
About EMAP x FRIEZE FILM SEOUL
For the third year in a row, Frieze Film returns to Frieze Seoul 2024. This year’s programme is presented in partnership with Ewha Media Art Presentation (EMAP) and is on view from 2 – 6 September at Ewha Womans University and online at frieze.com.
Curated by Joowon Park and Valentine Umansky, this year’s programme is titled ‘All that Weaves the Universe: Of Quantum Entanglements’. It brings together time-based media works of 37 international artists, unfolding across eight chapters.
