Anya Balano
puppyRoom.isOnline
puppyRoom.isOnline is a digital remaster of a previous artwork by the artist, puppy room (2024). Both pieces frame the viewer as a voyeur, looking into the room of a half-human-half-puppy, which acts as a stand-in or “avatar” for the artist. Like its predecessor, puppyRoom.isOnline digs into the tension of childlike playfulness against the perverse impulses that emerge when entering adulthood. There are a plurality of themes embodied in the artwork’s materiality; growing up in the digital age, dichotomy in identity, disjointed sexual maturity from a trauma-informed lens, and the confessional inclusion of specific substances the artist had been addicted to.
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