On today's A Portfolio, we look at the fleshy, alien-like works of Meeson Jessica Pae. She recently opened a solo show, Fluid Machines, at Rusha & Co in Los Angeles.
The work explores the interiors of the body as sensual architecture and machine, where fleshy soft bits and bodily fluids undulate and transform into otherness. The work often oscillates between representation and abstraction, micro and macro, to biological and mechanical, with a slippery layer of sensual pleasure.
Whether it be extreme microscopic views of cell structure, folded crevices of flesh, to mechanical interventions, there is an element of exploring the body as landscape, architecture, and machine.
Fluid gestures and undulating forms are used to create entangled, mysterious, asymmetric compositions where fleshy folds, dripping refractions of bodily fluids, and mechanical machine components create relationships and function symbiotically.
The process involves using 3D modeling software and VR sculpting to create organic forms, custom lights, environments, and physically impossible scenes within the unrestricted bounds of digital technology.
The process involves a methodical collecting of artifacts, images, and sounds to synthesize and compress into expansive visual fields. Working in a variety of media from painting, video, sculpture and installation, each medium is a tool to process natural phenomena from the interior to exterior.
