What happens when that eye leans ever closer into the screen and begins to watch and learn from the digital? All bets are off. What we see can have been reconfigured and reimagined in any number of ways. There is no need for truth, logic or limits.
By focusing on taxidermied specimens and natural history collections, Fairnington transforms hyperreal detail into a meditation on imperfection, time, and the ways we attempt to preserve life.
Against a backdrop of the new digital ®evolution and approaching ninety years since the publication of Walter Benjamin’s seminal essay ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’ we present an exhibition tracing the legacy of Benjamin’s prophetic work, and reconsider it in the present moment.
Felicitas Aga’s work is rooted in the landscapes and traditions of her upbringing but speaks to broader, more elusive themes: ritual, light and the absurd.
Anatomia Humana is an exhibition that examines the body’s contradictions - its force and its fragility, inviting us to consider what it means to be human. Through diverse media - painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, photography - 23 contemporary artists contemplate flesh, bones and psyche, revealing the strange and often uncomfortable truths of life.
