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Victor Lim Seaward

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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Victor Lim Seaward, Objet (Shell Head), 2023
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Victor Lim Seaward, Objet (Shell Head), 2023
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Victor Lim Seaward

Objet (Shell Head), 2023
3D printed SLA resin electroformed in tarnished silver
13.5 x 8 x 7 cm
5 1/4 x 3 1/8 x 2 3/4 in.
Edition of 3 plus 2 artist's proofs
Photo: Rob Harris. Courtesy of the artist and Brooke Benington
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  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ) Victor Lim Seaward, Thorned Nest, 2020
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 2 ) Victor Lim Seaward, Thorned Nest, 2020
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 3 ) Victor Lim Seaward, Thorned Nest, 2020

These pieces have been made using the 3D scan dowloaded from the websites of international museums like the Louvre or the National Museum of Denmark. By using 3D models that are available online to anyone, like this Roman head in the shell, the artist poses the question of authoriality, reappropriating an object that was meticulously designed and crafted centuries ago by the expert hands of artisans. The artist brings attention to the commodification of the creative process and of art itself, which Walter Benjamin in "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”, had analysed, proposing that mechanical reproduction devalues the aura and uniqueness of a work of art, and critiquing the absence of ritualistic value of the process of mechanical reproduction.


Its inauthenticity is well camouflaged by the patina that encases its 3D printed resin skeleton. The silver coating, made with an advanced high-tech technique called electroforming, has been artificially tarnished by the artist to mimic the passing of time and created an allure of truthfulness.

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These pieces have been made using the 3D scan dowloaded from the websites of international museums like the Louvre or the National Museum of Denmark. By using 3D models that are available online to anyone, like this Roman head in the shell, the artist poses the question of authoriality, reappropriating an object that was meticulously designed and crafted centuries ago by the expert hands of artisans. The artist brings attention to the commodification of the creative process and of art itself, which Walter Benjamin in "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”, had analysed, proposing that mechanical reproduction devalues the aura and uniqueness of a work of art, and critiquing the absence of ritualistic value of the process of mechanical reproduction.


Its inauthenticity is well camouflaged by the patina that encases its 3D printed resin skeleton. The silver coating, made with an advanced high-tech technique called electroforming, has been artificially tarnished by the artist to mimic the passing of time and created an allure of truthfulness.

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Midnight Oil, Brooke Benington, Fitzrovia, London, UK (2023)

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