Ipseity
An Enrique Agudo Solo Exhibition

Ipseity was Enrique Agudo's first solo exhibition. It presented eight works from his Ipseity series alongside digital costume renderings, shown on Luma Canvas LED displays.

Ipseity is an installation of eight digital paintings that visualize contemporary notions of identity through new deities and their environments, presenting allegorical scenes about the human self and our relationship to technology. Inspired by the Pre-Raphaelites, the works take on our digital realities in the form of traditional painting, made with current technology.

The scenes integrate generative animations connected to real-time data, linking the digital and the physical. They question how technology distorts or magnifies our self-perception and our place in the world, and consider technology as a generator of human culture and a tool for expanding identity, not only a resource with an apocalyptic price.

The project extends The Pantheon of Queer Mythology, the artist's virtual reality short film about the dreamworlds of queer identities in contemporary Western cities. It reaches further into chosen family, gender identity, youth, sexuality, addiction, wisdom, cultural heritage, and self-sabotage, drawing parallels between how we inhabit this burning planet and how we view ourselves.

Made by a diverse team of mostly queer collaborators, the work does not aim to represent dogmatically, but to speak to the audience in one, many, or all ways. By opening eight windows onto connected scenes that are never the same, with deities that speak to who we are as humans, Ipseity created a space between the digital and the physical that fostered curiosity and wonder.

About Enrique Agudo

Enrique Agudo (b. Madrid, 1989) works at the limits of digital media. His work focuses on pattern recognition in the digital imagery that saturates contemporary culture, how it shapes behavior, and how new rituals around technology might expand human culture and folklore.

With a background in architecture, Agudo moved from urban discourse to speculative worldbuilding and research-driven storytelling. He worked for many years alongside his mentors Daniel Canogar and Liam Young before establishing his own practice in Los Angeles in 2021. His work looks through an architectural lens at future anthropological questions, across fashion, new media, installation, animation, sculpture, AR, and VR.

Agudo is the creative director of The Pantheon of Queer Mythology, a VR short film that premiered at Tribeca Film Festival 2020, screened at Geneva International Film Festival and Cannes XR, was nominated for VR Film of the Year at the VR Awards, and was exhibited at Serrería Belga in Madrid and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.