In an attempt to retrace the meta-textual lineage of adaptation among three blonde counterfactual storytellers—balancing the thin line between self-actualization, fannish impersonation and multimillion-dollar wire fraud— Levi van Gelder depicts famous YouTuber and media personality Trisha Paytas doing an impression of convicted Silicon Valley fraudster Elizabeth Holmes in a ASMR roleplay video. The sculpture is a Frankensteinian pastiche, in which a paper-mache head is mounted on spider-like legs of steel, a compound of cultural signifiers that looks like it could haunt your dreams in search for scientific data, or grace the cover of Forbes magazine.
Website TROPEZ
Chapter 288: The Sculpture of Trisha Paytas Doing Elizabeth Holmes ASMR Roleplay
(styrofoam and paper-maché sculpture on stainless steel legs — 200x200x140cm — TROPEZ, Berlin and Woonhuis Ateliers, Amsterdam)
“The Physical Impersonation of Fraud in the Mind of Someone ASMR Roleplaying (1991)” at TROPEZ Berlin (2024) — Photography by J. Clark.
“The Physical Impersonation of Fraud in the Mind of Someone ASMR Roleplaying (1991)” at TROPEZ Berlin (2024) — Photography by Ing Agop.
“The Physical Impersonation of Fraud in the Mind of Someone ASMR Roleplaying (1991)” at Woonhuis Ateliers, Amsterdam (2024)
“The Physical Impersonation of Fraud in the Mind of Someone ASMR Roleplaying (1991)” at Woonhuis Ateliers, Amsterdam (2024)
“The Physical Impersonation of Fraud in the Mind of Someone ASMR Roleplaying (1991)” at Woonhuis Ateliers, Amsterdam (2024)
“The Physical Impersonation of Fraud in the Mind of Someone ASMR Roleplaying (1991)” at Woonhuis Ateliers, Amsterdam (2024) — Photography by Gert-Jan de Rooij.
In an attempt to retrace the meta-textual lineage of adaptation among three blonde counterfactual storytellers—balancing the thin line between self-actualization, fannish impersonation and multimillion-dollar wire fraud— Levi van Gelder depicts famous YouTuber and media personality Trisha Paytas doing an impression of convicted Silicon Valley fraudster Elizabeth Holmes in a ASMR roleplay video. The sculpture is a Frankensteinian pastiche, in which a paper-mache head is mounted on spider-like legs of steel, a compound of cultural signifiers that looks like it could haunt your dreams in search for scientific data, or grace the cover of Forbes magazine.
Website TROPEZ
Chapter 288: The Sculpture of Trisha Paytas Doing Elizabeth Holmes ASMR Roleplay
(styrofoam and paper-maché sculpture on stainless steel legs — 200x200x140cm — TROPEZ, Berlin and Woonhuis Ateliers, Amsterdam)
“The Physical Impersonation of Fraud in the Mind of Someone ASMR Roleplaying (1991)” at TROPEZ Berlin (2024) — Photography by J. Clark.
“The Physical Impersonation of Fraud in the Mind of Someone ASMR Roleplaying (1991)” at TROPEZ Berlin (2024) — Photography by Ing Agop.
“The Physical Impersonation of Fraud in the Mind of Someone ASMR Roleplaying (1991)” at Woonhuis Ateliers, Amsterdam (2024)
“The Physical Impersonation of Fraud in the Mind of Someone ASMR Roleplaying (1991)” at Woonhuis Ateliers, Amsterdam (2024)
“The Physical Impersonation of Fraud in the Mind of Someone ASMR Roleplaying (1991)” at Woonhuis Ateliers, Amsterdam (2024)
“The Physical Impersonation of Fraud in the Mind of Someone ASMR Roleplaying (1991)” at Woonhuis Ateliers, Amsterdam (2024) — Photography by Gert-Jan de Rooij.