{"uid":"lg3Mmb1rsjWnci6I","type":"artist","tags":["instalation"],"group":"no","group_name":null,"project_title":"Eyecubes","summary":"Eyecubes stemmed from an ancient and yet still disputed question: Are we prisoners of our own sensation? In Plato\u2019s allegory, the people imprisoned in the cave have only watched shadows projected on the wall. The shadows are the prisoners' reality.\n\nThe reality we experience of the world are inseparable from our biological builds. We see between 380-700 nanometers of wavelength. We hear between 20-20,000 Hz. What lies outside the range is outside our reality. We know of ultraviolet or infrared light, but we can never imagine an \u201ceighth color\u201d of the rainbow. Our experience is our limitation. \n\nEyecubes takes on this thinking by conceiving such a scenario where we jump out of the norms, shed our old husks, and fundamentally change the biological organs for observing the world. Instead of eyeballs, we build eyecubes. They serve as \u201cviewpoints\u201d for us to look at the world and humanity from an outsider perspective, and think about the possibilities in which what used to be counterintuitive can become the altered reality. \n\nI choose the optical organ\u2014eye\u2014because vision plays the most important role in our understanding of the world around us. However eyes are almost always spherical, and nature almost never produces cubic forms. To make eyes in a cubic form is to defy the law of nature, and then try to make sense of it. \n\nIn Plato\u2019s Cave, an escaped prisoner is still capable of adjusting to the outside world. But if the prison is our own limited body, are we still able to escape?","space":"The eyecubes are made of silicone rubber and then painted on using special paint. The \u201ceyes\u201d are placed on a lab table glowing from underneath and then put inside an ominous lab environment with dim light. The aim is to create a sense of alienation and disaffection, so that the audience can immediately jump out of their daily norms, and immerse themselves in an otherworldly setting.  \n\nMedia: silicone rubber, paint, Petri dishes, water, LED-lit lab table \nDimension: 94 x 53 x 10 cm","artists_proposal":null,"members":[],"lang":"en","status":"ok","video_link_password":null,"video_link":"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/428909435","audio_link_password":null,"audio_link":null,"images_link_password":null,"images_link":null,"cellphone":null,"description":null,"estimated_budget":null,"complementary_info":null,"fileCount":9,"names":"Siwen","surname":"Cai","email":"jasper@larifari.la","dni_type":"PASAPORTE","dni":"E90968600","address":"Unit 201, No. 1, 400 Yangqu Lu, Jing'an District","city":"Shanghai","nacionality":"Chinese","country_id":"45","birthdate":"1987-04-24T15:00:00.000Z","birthdate_2":"1987-04-24T15:00:00.000Z","telephone":"+8613795252842","web":"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/la.ri.fa.ri\/"}