Huntrezz Janos is an Afro-Hungarian trans-fem multidisciplinary artist. Living mostly in the metaverse, she has evaporated into the thin air of digital quasi-existence, neither exactly human nor avatar. Violent flashback to the present physical world, Hungary is currently the scapegoat of Europe, condemned for its anti-LGBTQ law. Prime minister Victor Orban is accused of suppressing freedom of expression. Flash forward to the virtual realm, we find Huntrezz fleeting our focal capacity like Silver Surfer. Is it the augmented reality or the augmented self that she asks us to confront? The non-binary fluidity of her presence could be downloaded, reconfigured, choreographed endlessly. It is this cyber-escapism and digital Resistance that characterises a new generation of futuristic guerrilla insurgents. With her bold abandonment of physicality, her embracement of her multiplied self, she becomes a new martyred digital Sufi spinning her avatar, or infinitely dancing like Salome the dance of the Seven Veils. There is something ominous and/or mystical about her evaporated dancing. It’s the encapsulation of time, the flatness of the screen, the nothingness of the bits that make this dance eerie. It is also a slap in the face of the seriousness of performance art, with its suffering body, the perspiration and the exhaling of self-importance. Huntrezz animates a new breed of art persona that is boldly superficial. The Art Movement Support/Surfaces comes strangely to mind. The rebelliousness of that group may resurface in a new Support/Surfaces digital movement. This time the battleground is not dissatisfaction towards art venues but the struggle against the physical world and its painful limitations. The limitations that Huntrezz is so fond of tweaking.

ECLIPSATRIX EXUVIA, 2021, Part 1
Virtual performance, real-time 3D environment and avatar, animated with Live Motion Capture, 15’
Courtesy of the artist and TRANSFER Gallery
Commissioned and produced by the Athens Biennale

ECLIPSATRIX EXUVIA, 2021, Part 2
3D-printed armor and video sculptural installation, 102.8 x 77.5 x 134.65 cm
Single-channel video with audio, 8’30’’
Courtesy of the artist and TRANSFER Gallery
Commissioned and produced by the Athens Biennale