Petra Cortright's seminal work sapphire cinnamon viper fairy, 2007-2022 will be shown at booth U67 as part of Art Basel Unlimited.

Petra Cortright’s installation sapphire cinnamon viper fairy takes the form of over two hundred webcam videos spanning sixty-nine monitors. Each individual video, a tiny, self-contained world, converges into a larger, ever-evolving collage. Conceived between 2007 and 2023, during the rise of smartphones and selfie culture, when the internet was, in the words of the artist, “a big empty space,” Cortright’s webcam works reflect an organic form of online existence: one driven by curiosity and the desire to simply be seen, even if just for a fleeting moment.

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