Carnation Contemporary

Opening Tonight 5-8 PM

Soul of the Hyperreal
Allan Pichardo + Alyssa Pichardo

🗓️ May 2 — 31, 2026
🎉 Opening Saturday, May 2, 5–8 PM
🕒 Hours: Sat–Sun, 12–5 PM & by appointment

EXHIBITION

Experiences once rooted in place, body, and memory are now filtered through screens, algorithms, and digital systems. This shift has created a condition where we increasingly relate to life through technologies that don't just represent reality, but transform it into something else. A kind of copy that can feel more vivid than the original.

Soul of the Hyperreal explores what survives this transformation through interactive installation, video game media, and generative prints. A personal act of mourning is reconstructed as an interactive digital space. A park trail becomes a distant voice, navigated through a rotary phone. Plant life is translated into genetic algorithms that produce new, uncanny forms imprinted onto tactile objects.

These works don't attempt to return to an untouched "real." Instead, they embrace the mediated version. What remains is still recognizable as ritual and form, but changed. Traces of presence, filtered through the systems we use to remember.

ARTISTS

Allan Pichardo is a Dominican American new media artist based in Portland, Oregon. His work spans interactive installations, video games, and speculative software, exploring how digital systems shape identity, memory, and truth. Allan holds a BFA in Computation Arts and Computer Science from Concordia University in Montreal. His work has been exhibited at InterAccess (Toronto), Studio XX (Montreal), Babycastles (New York City), and the Fountainhead Residency (Miami).
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Alyssa Pichardo is a textile artist and painter from Olympia, Washington working in Portland, Oregon. Her textile work focuses on sculptural and tailored garment making. Painting is a medium for her to explore abstraction of natural forms, interlacing imagery with fiber. A self-taught tailor, Alyssa has been making garments for 20 years. In 2020, Alyssa founded LP Mode, an ethical tailoring and clothing brand.
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