Audrey Lendvay

My large scale paintings and immersive sculptures create hybrid environments that explore human dissociation from the natural world and the artificiality of contemporary life. My work is informed by the ecological wreckage of the Fallout games and grounded in the ecological dysfunction our species has facilitated. My processes investigate the way video game players critically manipulate, disregard, and expose rules just as generations of artists have done so with the systems that shape our lives. Inspired by performance art traditions, my idea generation begins in virtual world explorations where I collect found imagery. Splintered ecosystems with glowing colors, flattened dimensions, and out-of-bounds perspectives reflect a failing simulation and a longing for reconnection with the Earth. My work emerges from a deep love for both digital artforms and wildlife, and a desire for a way of life in which technology and the environment can sustainably cooperate in a world that feels increasingly at odds with itself.