*pi(x)el* 1/5 (2022)
4K video


*pi(x)el* is a project bridging identity, diversity, and technology, which will take on different formats across a range of media including performance, interactive sculpture, video art, and  wearables. With *pi(x)el*, Filip Custic harnesses technology to sculpt a changeable body, unconstrained by the established norm. A hyperrealist sculpture, immobile in a rectangular pedestal, wears a suit of digital screens. Strategically located over features including the mouth, eyes or genitals, each screen is a treasury of body-part images filmed from a diverse cast of models. With a simple swipe, the viewer can change these images, using the suit to shape a new body which looks beyond gender, age or race.


Filip Custic works across photography, performance, and video to address themes around identity, the body, and our relationship with technology. Mirrors are a recurring feature, a reference to our age of image-obsession and selfies, and Custic also uses symbols, references to science, and art-historical borrowings in his art. Custic has worked as creative director and photographer for publications including *Vogue*, *GQ*, and *Esquire* and has exhibited at Caixaforum Barcelona, MdbK Leipzig (Germany), and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb (Croatia), among others.

pi(x)el is a project bridging identity, diversity and technology, which will take on different formats across a range of media (performance, interactive sculpture, video art, wearable…)

with pi(x)el, filip custic harnesses technology to sculpt a changeable body, unconstrained by the established norm.

an hyperrealist sculpture, immobile in a rectangular pedestal, wears a suit of digital screens. Strategically located over features including the mouth, eyes or genitals, each screen is a treasury of body-part images filmed from a diverse cast of models. With a simple swipe, the viewer can change these images, using the suit to shape a new body which looks beyond gender, age or race.

this unique NFT is part of the pi(x)el series with a total of 5 pieces.

the images shown on screen are the result of an exhaustive casting process in which Custic set out to express the human body in all its diversity.

each piece displays a selection of different images on the screens.

moving away from the idealised bodies of his previous works, pi(x)el embraces wrinkles, spots and scars, focussing on reality to celebrate human uniqueness.

a 4K quality video will also be provided.

pi(x)el 1/5

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The project created a hopeful and open sphere to deconstruct the assimilated social structures on sexuality and gender, to transmit a positive message on sex and the erotic, to defy body politics and to transverse the idea of intimacy, questioning erroneous stereotypes on sex and different gender expressions. It was originally ideated and developed for and with [∄ - Kyiv’s safer space](https://k41community.fund/), a cultural institution and currently a community fund active in supporting people affected by the war in Ukraine.


This current curation presenting 10 artworks investigates the space of digital art and NFT collectibles in a desire to sense where the potentials might lie and what forms they take in the *techno-immersive simulation* towards actualizing Sophie Lewis's beloved manifesto-like thoughts:


“We will, as survivors of the old regime of sexual violence, design whole cities full of erotic biotic infrastructure; whole continents adorned from coast to coast with spaces of thrilling safety; mushroom glades, therapy marquees, doula grottoes, patient-led free clinics, swimming holes, napping palaces, drop-in centres, temples for public weeping, bath-houses, multigenerational creches, polymorphously perverse aquifers, people’s banquet-halls, multispecies library-sensoriums, train compartments that can get you off, laundrettes that offer to fist you, collective houses that promote wellbeing, dance halls that promote bliss, massage coliseums, and pleasure pavilions.” [Sophie Lewis - Collective Turn-Off](https://maljournal.com/5/sex-negative/sophie-lewis/collective-turn-off/)

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