Through hyperrealistic painting, vivmoe explores the perception of reality and digitality. Her works challenge the boundaries of the visible by addressing the invisible - whether in the form of supposed emptiness or through the representation of digital processes via analog painting. The classical technique of trompe-l’œil becomes a method of deconstruction: what appears tangible eludes direct grasp, pointing instead to a deeper level of perception.

Title: ifyoureadingthisitsallsaid. Oil on canvas 60 x 70 cm 2023

Title: forgottopeelofthetape, Oil on canvas, 100 x 100 cm, 2023

The theoretical foundations of her work draw from quantum physics and philosophy. The principles of entanglement and non-locality, which in quantum mechanics dissolve the notion of isolated entities, are reflected in her conviction that reality is a relational construct. The idea that the future does not simply arise from the continuation of the past but emerges from a conscious openness to the yet-to-be finds its visual counterpart in vivmoe’s works: her painting operates at the threshold between the present and the potential, between being and non-being.

This tension between connection and alienation manifests holistically in her artistic practice. Her approach to music - particularly the piano - was an unexpected revelation of how knowledge and skills can reside within us without being consciously learned. When vivmoe sat at a piano for the first time in 2021, she intuitively played a piece by Bach, as if the instrument had been waiting for her all along. For her, this experience means surrendering to the flow of time - being fully present in a moment where each note responds to the previous one and calls forth the next. This fleeting dynamic mirrors the essence of her artistic practice: the search for the invisible within the visible, for the “nothingness” that paradoxically contains everything. Just as music follows a logic that transcends deliberate learning, reality does not arise merely from declarations of intent but from complex, often invisible networks of human cognition and perception.
A central motif in vivmoe’s artistic practice is the concept of emptiness - not as absence, but as a space of possibility. Works like ifyourereadingthisitsallsaid embody this exploration in its purest form: a seemingly empty wooden frame, a small note instructing the viewer to ask ChatGPT to generate a painting.

What at first glance appears as an unpainted surface reveals itself, upon closer inspection, as a meticulously rendered illusion. Here, reflections on perception, artificial intelligence, and authorship intertwine - an interplay of expectations that challenges the viewer to reconsider their own role in the construction of meaning.