Isabelita Virtual
Spain
Where do you locate yourself in relation to the systems you work with?
Where are you heading, and what is pulling you there?
How would you describe the space your practice is currently unfolding in?
Description
In an era increasingly defined by disembodiment, simulation, and frictionless digital experiences, flesh becomes a site of resistance. Meat insists on weight, decay, and consequence. It reminds us that the body is not an interface, but an emotion. Meat appears here as raw matter: vulnerable, visceral, perishable. It refers to what cannot be abstracted away. The gems, by contrast, introduce ideas of value, permanence, and ornament, elements historically associated with beauty, status, and transcendence. Their coexistence produces tension rather than harmony. Beauty does not erase disgust, and disgust does not cancel beauty. Instead, they inhabit the same space, forcing the viewer to confront their own thresholds of attraction and rejection. Ornament is not applied to mask the flesh, but embedded within it. Beauty is sutured into matter. Here, ornament is not applied to mask the flesh, but embedded within it. Beauty is sutured into matter. Value is inseparable from vulnerability. What shines does so from inside what can rot.
Process
Five years ago, I created a photographic series that questioned disgust and beauty coexisting. Ornameat continues and expands that inquiry. It's a series of IMAGES that intensifies this emotional friction and invites reflection on flesh as an anchor to reality: to pain, to gravity, to the physical condition of being alive.
Tools
AI models and postproduction.
