The work imagines Barbie, the vampire Carmilla, and the zombie gathering on a social media channel. These enduring figures from Western popular culture discuss the gender norms of the eras in which they first emerged, before social media existed. Created by humans yet never fully belonging to the human world, they offer an outsider’s perspective on how these norms continue to change.
As the digital develops, their images never fade. Instead, they evolve and persist, serving as buoys in the boundless digital ocean that lead us to trace the past and project the future.