Mixed Media
Sculpture
Film / Video
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Becoming 2025
The Refuge II
Shifting
Wax on Top of Me
Assemblage and costumes
Glass 11 × 9.5 × 16.5 cm
Triple-screen video 1 min 13 sec
Single-channel video 1 min 31 sec
2025
2025
2025
Molly Valdez & Judson Valdez
miriamiria.art Miria Miria
mmii.work mmii
mollythevaldez
miyukiguo Miyuki Guo
Molly Valdez and Judson Valdez are Brooklyn-based video artists who work with experimental video, multimedia footage and live feeds to create time-based works that blend analogue and digital processes. By collaborating with movement artists and engaging with improvisation, they blur the boundaries between filming and performance, reflecting on how images, bodies and technology co-construct new narratives of presence and control. Wax on Top of Me explores the weight of perceived movement through frame-by-frame animation and compressed footage. Improvised gestures are captured by a distorted, surveillance-like camera, whose limitations leave digital imperfections. Each frame is printed, transformed into wax silhouettes and re-imported into the video. The contrast between sharp footage and softened wax creates a mirrored choreography, reflecting memory’s distortion of the body’s true motion.
Miria Miria is a cross-media artist whose practice explores the shifting boundaries between human and non-human worlds. Working with found plastics, wood, fabric and discarded materials, she creates assemblages and immersive installations that merge the artificial with the organic. Her practice often extends into performance, where costumes echo sculptural forms and blur the line between object and body. Informed by New Materialism, the work engages with the agency of matter, using discarded plastics whose shapes and histories guide each assemblage. At times activated by performers in costume, the work takes on a vibrant and playful presence, drawing viewers in and inviting them to reconsider their relationship with both synthetic and organic worlds. Becoming explores transformation and the shifting boundary between human and non-human forms.
mmii are a London-based duo working at the intersection of the digital and the physical. Their practice employs game engines, real-time interaction and digital media to create immersive works that critically reflect on communication and human connection. Zoey Kim develops participatory experiences that blend technology and humanity, while Sami Malla uses VR and storytelling to explore ritual, memory and shared narrative. Shifting immerses viewers in a speculative landscape shaped by ecological symbolism and sound. Inspired by the olive tree’s migration under climate change, the work merges sculpture, science fiction aesthetics and real-time plant vibrations translated into ultrasonic frequencies. With headphones, participants are guided across the terrain by abstract olive tree sculptures and high-frequency sounds that act as navigational cues.
Miyuki Guo is a Chinese-Canadian multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores transformation, perception and inner journeys. Working with glass, clay and metal, Guo investigates the threshold between form and formlessness, where the material and immaterial converge. Her works function as both visual diaries and meditations on duality, presence and absence. The Refuge II speaks to the search for safety and wholeness not in others but within. It reflects the quiet transformation that occurs when emptiness becomes a place of return and refuge is reclaimed as an inner state of being. Cast in glass using the lost-wax process, the work preserves the delicate imprints left by the original form. It also explores the subtle movement within glass, its translucency, reflection and shifting surface qualities.
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