P2P and Galerie Rudolfinum Present: Remilia Corporation's #CHEESEWORLD
PRAGUE, February 13, 2025 — Remilia Corporation is pleased to announce its participation as a guest collaborator in Eva and Franco Mattes' ongoing project P2P, featured in the exhibition Poetics of Encryption at Galerie Rudolfinum in Prague.
Following an invitation from the Mattes, Remilia Corporation developed a memetic formula designated #CHEESEWORLD. Through this framework, Remilia Corporation coordinated their devoted constituents—a group of non-artists—to generate a 1GB archive containing thousands of original memes.
#CHEESEWORLD's formal qualities emerged through an asynchronous meme workshop spanning the Twitter timeline and private groupchats. The social media ecosystem's inherent call-and-response dynamics facilitated instant feedback loops, allowing participants to generate rapidly referential works within a participatory mode. This methodology represents an accelerated artmaking practice, collapsing traditional production timelines into compressed creative bursts while maintaining conceptual coherence across the collective output.
Remilia Corporation developed a copylefted applet for #CHEESEWORLD functioning as both creative tool and curatorial mechanism. Copylefting is a licensing approach that allows free distribution and modification of a work while requiring that the same freedoms be preserved in derivative works. The web-based interface enables users to upload images, apply the distinctive “deep fried” magazine scan filter that creates a degraded, high-contrast aesthetic, and add captions in Impact font—the classic meme typeface. Users can recursively process their creations by resubmitting them through the applet, generating increasingly distorted iterations that amplify the project's digital decay aesthetic. This factory-model approach maintains specific formal constraints while facilitating mass production of memes with signature watermarks and compression artifacts. Remilia and the Mattes hand-curated which community-generated images would appear in the expansive 1GB archive presented in P2P, ensuring both quality control and conceptual coherence across the collective output.
Within this constrained framework exists a distinctive visual motif: hyper-muscular zoomorphic figures operating at the intersection of juvenile power fantasies and algorithmic aesthetics. These exaggerated animal bodies—with impossible anatomies and awesome muscularity—often depicted in incongruous business attire with ties and suits—simultaneously reference and subvert the uncanny distortions characteristic of AI-generated imagery. Drawing from deliberately lowbrow, offmarket #LuxuryArt, the imagery embraces a populist aesthetic, appropriating unrestrained maximalism while satirizing elite cultural signifiers.The motif creates a visually striking commentary on digital culture's processing of idealized forms, where adolescent obsessions with strength and transformation get filtered through technological mediation until they transform into both absurdist spectacle and instantly recognizable tribal signals for those within the #CHEESEWORLD ecosystem.
#CHEESEWORLD is an ongoing project researching collective digital authorship and memetic distribution systems. The project channels the creative energy of a vast online network to create a landscape of visual communication that embraces and critiques contemporary digital vernacular.
The artwork is distributed through P2P, a server created by Eva and Franco Mattes, housed in a white monolithic structure at Galerie Rudolfinum. In the exhibition's framework, #CHEESEWORLD remains hidden within the server—showing no output beyond blinking lights and sounds from cooling fans.
This occlusion challenges standard exhibition viewing while highlighting the peer-to-peer distribution model central to contemporary digital practice. The public can participate in this distribution system by visiting www.peer-to-peer.xyz and contributing to the seeding process."
The P2P installation features cage design by Salotto Buono, software by Nelini & Ziliani, and installation by Michal Stochl.
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About P2P
P2P is an itinerant, artist-run server that infiltrates institutional art venues, utilizing their infrastructure and connectivity to distribute art through a peer-to-peer network. With each installation, P2P shares new or rarely seen works from selected artists, challenging traditional models of art distribution and ownership.
About Remilia Corporation
Remilia Corporation is an avant-garde net art collective described as a virtual syndicate organized like a cyberyakuza, a groupchat-as-studio modeled as if CCRU met Warhol’s Factory, embodying a novel artistic philosophy centered around network spirituality. Remilia organized under its CEO Charlotte Fang in January 2021 with the intention of self-platforming its new net art by weaponizing finance as aesthetic across various industries that double as cultural platforms.
About Galerie Rudolfinum
Galerie Rudolfinum is one of the Czech Republic's most significant institutions dedicated to contemporary art. Housed in a neo-renaissance building in Prague, the gallery is committed to presenting innovative exhibitions that explore the boundaries of contemporary artistic practice.
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