raise BodyShapeNotAccepted

Year of Creation:

2025

Media:

Custom Software, Real-Time Video Processing, Display, push button

Dimensions:

Variable

Interaction Type:

Tactile Controller

Duration:

Looping / Real-Time

Description:

Images of the artist’s face and body are digitally warped into undulating 3D forms, transforming the human form into something both beautiful and estranged. Beneath the animation, red text scrolls like an error message, as if a program had failed to execute and raised an exception: raise BodyShapeNotAccepted(“Incorrect Body Shape”). A button labeled “Debug” invites users to intervene. Each press cycles to a new distorted form, repeating the same error. There are six total variations, but none resolve the issue; no correct body exists. The act of “debugging” becomes a ritual of futility—mirroring the experience of trying to “fix” oneself in pursuit of beauty or love, only to confront the same rejection in a new form. The work collapses the logic of software troubleshooting into the emotional logic of human longing, revealing the recursive pain of trying to correct what was never broken.

Core Question:

What does it mean when our bodies are treated as errors within digital and social systems?

@ Contemporary Shamanism, Defy Film Festival, Nashville, TN

Exhibitions:

2025 — Contemporary Shamanism, Defy Film Festival, Nashville, TN

2025 — Art Between The Avenues, Arcade Arts, Nashville, TN