
Cloud of Petals Interactive VR Experience #2
2017
Cloud of Petals Interactive VR Experience #2 invites the viewer into an immersive digital environment where thousands of rose petals cascade and swirl in response to the participant's presence, transforming the act of looking into an act of authorship. Created in 2017, this work originates from Meyohas's landmark performance and data project in which she directed factory workers to strip rose petals one by one while motion-capture technology recorded every gesture, translating human labor into raw digital information. The resulting dataset became the foundation for this virtual reality experience, where the petals function simultaneously as aesthetic material, encoded memory, and a meditation on the relationship between physical effort and its digital afterlife. Sarah Meyohas occupies a singular position in contemporary art, working at the intersection of performance, technology, and financial systems to interrogate how value is produced and perceived in the modern world. Her practice draws on a background in finance and fine arts, lending her work a rigorous conceptual framework that distinguishes it from purely decorative digital art. Cloud of Petals Interactive VR Experience #2 is held as a signed digital file, a format that underscores Meyohas's ongoing investigation into ownership, materiality, and authenticity in the age of reproducible media. For collectors interested in acquiring significant works from the formative years of VR as an artistic medium, this piece represents both a historically grounded acquisition and a genuinely absorbing object of contemplation.
- Medium
- Digital Virtual Reality File
- Signed
- Yes
- Spotted At
- Gallery · Meyohas
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