16 October — December 2025
Devi
The Body as System



The Body as System extends the body beyond representation into architecture, atmosphere, and symbolic terrain. Central to this practice is the artist’s own likeness, recast as data: I.M. Devi transforms identity into a living dataset that is continually reshaped. This is not self-portraiture but an experiment in authorship: how the personal can become universal material, and how individual data can function as an open system.
The guiding principle of this approach is what the artist terms Aesthetic Intelligence — a design practice where beauty operates as infrastructure. Beauty here is not ornament but a programmable layer that converts data into atmosphere, light, colour, and shared affect. Streams of information unfold as gradients of shadow and luminosity; inputs reorganise memory and emotion in real time. Authorship itself is distributed, co-produced by the data and activated by the presence of those who enter the space.
In The Sublime Gaze, the body becomes a quiet terrain of sensation, resistance, and revelation. These works do not seek clarity; instead, they drift between image and impression, asking us to linger in the thresholds: between gaze and gesture, form and feeling, signal and silence.
Each portrait unfolds gradually, as an act of becoming, a suspended intimacy, a soft rupture in the cycle of spectacle—where the body is not reduced, but revered; not narrated, but felt. The digital here does not disembody; it extends, becoming a vessel for presence as atmosphere. These images hold space for the unseen, the unresolved, the trembling stillness of simply being.
To witness these figures is to encounter a mirror that does not reflect, but quietly reveals.
Artworks
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ADDRESS
Carrer Llull, 134, 08005 Barcelona, Spain
CONTACT
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4 PM — 8 PM, Thursday–Saturday
Gallery admission is free
For collectors, artists and potential collaborators visits are available by appointment—please email us to arrange a private viewing
@Load Gallery 2023-2025
ADDRESS
Carrer Llull, 134, 08005 Barcelona, Spain
CONTACT
visit@load-gallery.com
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OPENING HOURS
4 PM — 8 PM, Thursday–Saturday
Gallery admission is free
For collectors, artists and potential collaborators visits are available by appointment—please email us to arrange a private viewing
@Load Gallery 2023-2025
ADDRESS
Carrer Llull, 134, 08005 Barcelona, Spain
CONTACT
visit@load-gallery.com
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OPENING HOURS
4 PM — 8 PM, Thursday–Saturday
Gallery admission is free
For collectors, artists and potential collaborators visits are available by appointment—please email us to arrange a private viewing
@Load Gallery 2023-2025