QUANTWIN

In QUANTWIN, the artist Silke Grabinger explores the theme of twins - particularly her own unborn twin sibling. An immersive digital twin is materially embodied through a soft robotics entity and appears on stage or within a space as an interactive partner attached to her body. The work is not about perfectly mirroring one’s own identity, but about encountering the “Other”: an exploration of how different identities can hybridize and merge symbiotically in new forms.

QUANTWIN questions the concept of the “twin” at a time when digital and robotic worlds are redefining their relationship with reality. Inspired by the many-worlds interpretation of quantum physics - which proposes that each measurement of a quantum system generates new parallel universes - the new representation of the lost twin is understood as a possible manifestation of an alternative reality. Just as a particle only assumes a definite state through observation, a new hybrid form of existence emerges here through interaction with the soft robotic entity. This artistic work reflects not only the ambiguity between self and double, but also the indeterminacy of the quantum world, where probabilities and superpositions collapse only through the act of encounter.

Thus, QUANTWIN becomes an artistic exploration of the question: what happens when we do not merely observe the “Other,” but actively interact with it?

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