Carla Theurer

'Sublime S[t]imulation' is an experimental and poetic work that intends to challenge our perception and conception of reality by creating an experience that explores the thin shadowy line between the physical and digital, the real world and the simulation.

The outcome is an audiovisual installation with a big wall projection that invites the audience to step into the screen and get immersed in a contemplative environment to be taken on a personal and reflective journey. 

Whereas the voice-over narration and the soundscape are ongoing, the visual world changes from chapter to chapter. In relation to the story being told, we enter different tabs/windows that last for a while to be replaced by a new tab. 

Filmed from November 2020 until June 2021, this series of 118 benches coincides with the Coronavirus pandemic, when the UK went into the second lockdown.

Screens, cameras, images have enabled us to see the world from a different angle, different perspective. In my work, I aim to explore this potential and challenge perceptions of the everyday. 

In my visuals, I capture impressions of everyday life in the depiction of ordinary, mundane subjects. I represent the world surrounding us in a contemplative and seductive manner playing with time and scale, movement and the materiality of the image. I combine elements of contemplation with poetic and playfulness pulsating between figurative concretion and aesthetic abstraction to address the indistinct edges of the digital and physical.