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Rives wiley

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    DIY Laser Eye Surgery

    4 humans,  artists voice, petroleum jelly, food dye, lasers, etc on video ( no digital effects added)

    DIY Laser Eye Surgery

    In "DIY Laser Eye Surgery", painter and video artist Rives Wiley invites viewers to step inside her perception-altering, handmade interpretation of the internet. Sourcing from digital imagery of lens flares, heavily photoshopped sunsets, snapshots of social gatherings and screen-saver graphics, Wiley immerses her viewers into spaces where reality and their virtual counterparts mirror and mimic one another in an endless feedback loop. At turns playful and anxiety-inducing, Wiley prompts viewers to question the nature of virtual reality and the consider whether life is merely reflected in the digital realm, or if the digital dictates us.

    Wiley's skill in blurring boundaries between the physical and the virtual reaches its apex in her trompe l'oeil installation "DIY Laser Eye Surgery". An homage to the cult of YouTube do-it-yourself culture, Wiley's oil-painted diorama employs one-point perspective, video and sculpture to uncanny ends, creating an unsettlingly real-looking screen in which a disembodied voice cheerfully guides viewers through an absurd tutorial on how to use lasers, a razor blade, food coloring and petroleum jelly in order alter one's vision so as to see in digital effects.

    WIEDERHOEFT FASHION SHOW PRE-SPRING 2023

    Set created in collaboration with notpaulsimon for Jackson wiederHoeft​

    Photo Gallery

    MODELS … Sarah Abney, Somalia Knight, Josh McGregor, Danielle Mareka
    AUDIENCE … Miller Bradford, Jonacel de Jesus, Jodi Gonzalez, Meola Jackson, Silvana Jakich, Jazzy LaRae, Yadan Marin, Smith McLean

    PHOTOGRAPHER & ART DIRECTOR … notpaulsimon
    SET DESIGNER & PAINTER … Rives Wiley

    ART ASSISTANTS...Siri Cortez, Kyle Henderson, Kalya OD, Shan Lai, Weihan Zhou
    MAKEUP ARTIST… Allie Smith
    HAIR ARTIST … Sean Bennett
    NAIL ARTIST … Ada Yeung
    MOVEMENT DIRECTOR … Austin Goodwin
    LIGHTING DIRECTOR … Saif Al-Sobaihi
    KEY GRIP … Edward Herrera
    SWING GRIP … William Woods
    DIGI TECH … Dan Atteo
    PRODUCER … Trey Horvath