“Out of Body: Sculpture Post-Photography” Exhibition

Bitforms Gallery

poster for “Out of Body: Sculpture Post-Photography” Exhibition
[Image: Sophie Kahn "Machines for Suffering I" (2018)]

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Co-curated by Claudia Hart and Susan Silas

bitforms gallery presents Out of Body: Sculpture Post-Photography co-curated by Claudia Hart and Susan Silas. This exhibition will feature five women artists who create sculpture using production techniques emerging from simulations technologies. Stephanie Dinkins, Claudia Hart, Carla Gannis, Sophie Kahn and Susan Silas engage issues of sexuality, the body, and identity during the current paradigm shift, in which conceptions of reality and authenticity are called into question as the dominant means of production is moving from photographic capture toward computer simulation.

The works in the exhibition are representations of the female form, destabilized, decayed, crystallized, roboticized, consumerized, or strangely hyper-realized beyond what the eye can see or the camera can index. They represent an evolving consciousness, expressing the possibilities of advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence, virtual reality, 3D scanning, rapid prototype printing, and augmented reality. Sculpture, photography and video no longer adhere to their past definitions; instead they become new hybrid forms whose plasticity mirrors the fluidity and mutability they seek to represent.

As Donna Haraway urged in her canonical Cyborg Manifesto, women should move beyond old binaries and create other identities for themselves. Simulation technology enables an expression of less rigid identities and bodies, an impulse these artists share. Out of Body: Sculpture Post-Photography pushes back against the phallocentric, masculinist attributes produced by the tech industry and engineering culture.

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Schedule

from October 27, 2018 to December 02, 2018

Opening Reception on 2018-10-27 from 18:00 to 20:00

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