Sabine Gruffat
Sandwiched, 2019
Unity digital animation, 5:00
On loan from the Artist
On view in the E. Craig Wall, Jr. Academic Center from January 10th – February 20th, 2021.
Please note: All buildings on campus, including the Wall Center, are only open to Davidson students, faculty, and staff due to the pandemic.
Artist Statement: Sandwiched is a video game simulation. This work is a part of a series called Antibodies that engages with the ways video games and 3d animation represent (and misrepresent) the female body. Young avatars (such as this one) follows patterns, react to physics and stimuli, and may speak from a script. They don’t really eat, they don’t have a voice, and they are not able to think for themselves. Theirs is a quiet rebellion, but they will gain strength in numbers.
Sabine Gruffat is a French-American artist who was born in Bangkok, Thailand. After living many years in Saudi Arabia and Hong Kong, She immigrated to the United States. She has produced digital media works for public spaces as well as interactive installations that have been shown at the Zolla Lieberman Gallery in Chicago, Art In General, Devotion Gallery, PS1 Contemporary Art Museum, and Hudson Franklin in New York. Currently she is Associate Professor of Art at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. She is also a filmmaker with a special interest in the social and political implications of media and technology. Sabine’s films and videos have screened at festivals worldwide including the Image Forum Festival in Japan, The Ann Arbor Film Festival and Migrating Forms in New York. Her feature film I Have Always Been A Dreamer has screened internationally including at the Viennale, MoMA Documentary Fortnight, Cinema du Reel at the Centre Pompidou, and The Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival.