Peter Varhelyi and Tina Willgren represent the artist-run collective Studio 44 in Stockholm. Their idea is to combine and show two apparently different artistic approaches and methods to an interesting meeting and interaction. Although their techniques and materials differ they believe they share a common theme.
Tina Willgren works with moving images. Her videos take animated insect shapes, distorted through technical misuse and glitches in a game engine, as a starting point. The figures buzz across screens, crawl, fly, die and re-emerge, in a fauna created with digital signals.
Peter Varhelyi works with textile, paint and wood to create big costumes in a theatrical setting. These objects can be seen as larger than life figures in their own right, like avatars patiently waiting and witnessing, moving just slightly.
Together the works respond to the title “Holy Fluff” by creating associations to ritual clothing and the nature of a life cycle as seen through a dysfunctional game engine.