Lobby, 2012, Stainless steel, acrylic, monitor, 4 min. 15 sec. (loop), 80 × 130 × 120 cm, Ed. 1/5

Lobby combines a stainless steel and acrylic architectural model with a video performance, forming a phygital structure in which material and image permeate one another. Inside the model, a video replaces the camera, showing a young woman speaking about her wounds and repeatedly hiding her face within her hair. The transparent exterior of the lobby and the performer’s gestures of concealment reveal the boundaries between interior and exterior, exposure and withdrawal, material and data.In Lobby, the sculptural form serves as the physical body of the video, while the video functions as its emotional interior. The two mediums mediate each other’s presence, creating a sensory structure in which the real and the virtual resonate rather than divide. The work captures the moment when a digital image inhabits a material surface to construct a space of emotion, illustrating how art in the phygital era offers new ways of experiencing the intersections between sensation, interiority, and representation.