T-Pose is a large-scale 3D printed artwork using recycled plastic. It addresses the standardization in how we are operated/governed and represented by new computational technologies. Positing the notion of the body and collective behavior in a contemporary post-digital era where digital authoritarianism is pending.

The featured character stems from the standard, ‘default’ human model (see image below) available in crowd simulation software which is predominantly male. For the purpose of this work the character´s features have been altered proposing a more androgynous appearance. 

A single character aiming at representing a crowd. 
Its specific posture is that of T-pose which is the initial pose of any digital human character in a 3D animation/simulation software before its behaviour is being programmed. A pose representing a body open and yielding to be programmed.

The materiality, and surface of the sculpture clearly shows the 3D printing technique, its defaults and flaws which have been intentionally preserved to maintain the character within its aesthetical digital realm. No human hands have polished the surface or glitches to correct the machinic/mathematically produced characteristics/imprints.

Human figures on plinths, statues on squares and in public spaces usually represent a person of power, political, cultural, or monistic authority. Hence, this default character representing a default anybody or everybody which original purpose is to be acting in the background, being one of the crowd, encounters on a daily basis the crowd crossing the square on their way to or from work.

The many restrictions that a public space imposes and the many interventions from different actors occupying that same space made me turn to an independent object. One which could be easily moved and was made self-contained/self-sufficient incorporating the cement foundation into the sculpture.