EUPHORSIA: BECOME HUMAN

EUPHORSIA: META/SCAPE is a playful yet critical exploration of simulation, fandom culture, and digital escapism—a performance within a simulation. This installation challenges the blurred boundaries between creator and audience, between reality and virtuality, between the worlds we consume and the ones we construct.

Inspired by Black Mirror and the concept of heterotopia, the work transforms a traditional exhibition space into a hyper-personal, bedroom-like shrine. Posters of my original characters (OCs) line the walls, sci-fi-inspired accessories are scattered like artefacts, and on the projection, I interact with my OCs through The Sims 4. The space becomes a self-contained world—intimate, obsessive, voyeuristic.

But the gaze cuts both ways. While I simulate my OCs, the audience watches me—watching them. This recursive loop of observation turns the installation into an intimate performance of surveillance and self-reflection. It blurs the line between private and public, control and vulnerability. In this space, spectatorship becomes a form of low-key voyeurism—uninvited yet oddly familiar.

That tension—of being seen and not seen, of watching and being watched—mirrors how digital escapism works. Online, we curate ourselves and consume others, seeking connection through screens while slipping further into simulation. META/SCAPE leans into that contradiction: the comfort we find in artificial intimacy, and the quiet alienation that often comes with it.

By layering fan culture, identity, control, and the politics of observation, META/SCAPE invites viewers to ask: Are we the player, the character, or the code? And in a world mediated by screens, how much of our self is already simulated?