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Pey-Chwen Lin’s digital audio and video installation, Making of Eve CLone I, was awarded the First Prize in the category of New Media Art at the 2019 Florence Biennale in Italy.

Media: Digital Image and Sound Installation, Computer, Media Player, Projector, Stereo
Dimensions Variable
Year: 2016

In the video “Making of Eve Clone I”, Pey-Chwen Lin appropriates the drawing of Vitruvian Man by Leonardo Da Vinci, re-presenting how technological patriarchy attempts to create the body of Eve Clone with the ideal human physique. By referring to Da Vinci’s aspiration to associate man, through the circle and the square, as the center of the universe, the artist reveals that Eve Clone is the product of the human desire to challenge God’s Creation. In the video, Lin also traces back the making of Eve Clone by precisely overlaying her original drawings and the Vitruvian Man, combining the two images into one. As the body image rotates through 360 degrees, it transforms into a body made of wireframes, and then gradually into bodies with a human-like skin, a metallic skin with animal and chrysalis traces, a holograph-like skin with green illumination, and finally, a body depicting the Great Image from The Book of Daniel, with a golden head, a silver body, a bronze belly, iron legs, and feet that are partly made of iron and partly of clay.
Due to 3D visual illusion, Eve Clone seems to be emerging from Da Vinci’s manuscript into a three-dimensional body. The combination with sound effects creates a sense of mystery and strangeness. In the middle of the video, the artist specifically presents how Eve Clone is examined in the 3D computer space, such as enlarging, shrinking, and rotating through different angles. The computer interface, camera symbols, icons, and timelines are also intentionally preserved to highlight the approach and concept of translating the 3D digitalization process into the making of Eve Clone. In addition, the mirrored writing of Da Vinci’s work has been intricately replaced by Bible verses, which helps to define the destiny and identity of Eve Clone. The artist has offered multi-faceted comparisons and juxtapositions of the Vitruvian Man and Eve Clone: the visual contrast between the graphic manuscripts of the Vitruvian Man and the 3D digital animation of Eve Clone; the overlapping male and female bodies of ideal proportions; the reference of symbols and Bible scriptures. Furthermore, it is possible to compare how de Vinci and Lin, as male and female artists, respectively, created the Vitruvian Man and Eve Clone in a different time and space, with different media, and through their own creative desires.