Carla Gannis - Garden of Emoji Delights
Anna Dumitriu - Microbe Mouth
Until Sunday, August 20, Furtherfield Gallery in London presents the exhibition “Children of Prometheus”. Artists featured in this show explore the possible consequences of our scientific and technological imaginings for us as individuals, our society, and the world at large.
Based on Mary Shelley’s classic novel Frankenstein written 200 years ago which continues to offer a lens through which we can examine current practices in art and technology and how they shape today’s society.
In this exhibition, visitors can encounter Anna Dumitriu’s Microbe Mouth, a necklace of unique bacterias’s teeth. Microbe Mouth is a collaboration with scientists Melissa Grant and Rachel Sammons from the University of Birmingham’s School of Dentistry. Carla Gannis updates Hieronymus Bosch’s famous triptych in her Garden of Emoji Delights replacing medieval religious symbolism with an emotion-inspired iconography of the 21st century. Alan Sondheim’s Avataurror is a 3D printed avatar representing distorted, wounded, problematic bodies and their relationship to states of violence and genocide, where cracks and wounds are eternally everywhere and nowhere.
Simon McLennan’s Drawings reflect intimate contradictions in our dysfunctional society showing us daily mutations. When the artist and open-source engineer Salvatore Iaconesi, one of the artist duo AOS (Art is Open Source), launched a participatory open source initiative to find a cancer cure. Children of Prometheus considers the roles of our arts and science traditions, and how they are played out while examining governance, posthumanism, biohacking, and biopolitics.
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Cover picture: Carla Gannis – Garden of Emoji Delights
