Gazira Babeli (Second Life, 2006 - 2010) is an artist born in 2006 on Second Life. This open digital platform differs from traditional video games thanks to the space of freedom gifted to its users' creativity. Users are, in fact, responsible for the simulation's contents, and this granted Second Life a reference role in the lively community of artists at that time. First "Avatar artist" and pioneer of virtual world performances, Gazira Babeli finds her debut work in her existence as an immaterial identity. Locosolus r1 is a virtual environment/archive the viewer can explore through the artist's avatar, recalling her "retreat" in Second Life (homonymous to Cantarel's, the bizarre inventor of Raymond Roussel). Collecting and making installations, projects, and performances available again in a virtual space reveal how intervening on code can directly affect our living space, social environment, and the body-simulacra in which we recognize ourselves.
Gazira Babeli