Auriea Harvey

Auriea Harvey is an artist living and working in Rome, Italy. Drawing on her pioneering background in Internet art and video game development through collaborations with her collectives—Entropy8Zuper!, Tale of Tales, and Song of Songs—Auriea infuses her works with unique narratives and character development, materializing the intangible through physical form, digital interaction, and immersive experience.

Auriea’s creative process often begins by capturing life through digital scanning. These scans are transformed into sculptures and digital materializations, frequently combined with elements from her extensive library of 3D models based on her clay sculptures and digital creations. These works are then realized through 2D and/or 3D printing, enriched with hand-crafted organic elements, and translated into bronze, glass, or other precious materials. She develops installations that immerse and engage the audience in evocative spaces inhabited by her characters.

The tangible works are accompanied by final interactive virtual objects and scenes that navigate the space between the possible and the impossible. Employing syncretism as a methodological approach, Auriea creates sculptures, software, and images on transforming bodies. Her forms engage in dialogue with the legacy of figuration in art history, developing characters with distinct narratives. Each sculpture becomes part of a series that continues until the character’s story is complete. The artist examines cultural artifacts to explore and reinterpret their meanings and forms. These objects are filtered through her perspective, acknowledging her influences and blending them with original creations to reinvent, reinterpret, and construct new narratives that reflect her unique artistic vision.

"mother/child" explores the expressive possibilities of sculpture modeled in virtual space, which also finds a physical translation through the use of 3D printing.
In this digital version, the submitted work introduces levels of participation through interactivity and augmented reality, allowing the sculpture to extend into the intimate spaces of everyday domestic life. Through fluid forms, vibrant colors, and unconventional materials, mother/child offers a powerful reflection on motherhood as a complex, luminous, and contradictory experience—one that unites strength and fragility.
The work affirms the full expressive dignity of digital materials, proposing a possible continuity between tradition and innovation, between sculptural memory and the technological languages of the present.