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A World Without End
Duo Show Gillian Brett & Hannah Rowan, Curated by Sara Dolfi Agostini. 2024
C+N Gallery CANEPANERI Genoa is delighted to present A World Without End, dual solo show by Gillian Brett & Hannah Rowan, curated by Sara Dolfi Agostini.
In the preface of The Cyborg Manifesto (1985), the influential American academic Donna J. Haraway envisioned a world without gender, without beginning and without end – free from the ideological dictates of Western capitalist thought and entrusted to a new hybrid entity, a synthesis of human and machine. Forty years later, a symbiotic and emancipated relationship with technology seems impossible in light of the authoritarian and expansionist tendencies that interconnect the physical and digital worlds. In the dual solo exhibition by Brett and Rowan a world without end imagined by Haraway takes on hallucinatory traits, featuring fragmented, replicating bodies, sensory short circuits, and material transformations.
Their practices, in some ways complementary, offer a similar physical involvement between the artist's body and the materials, producing in the viewer a pervasive sense of vulnerability. In this way, they suggest counterpoints, or breaks in the compact vision that intertwines technological progress and societal evolution, meeting conceptually not only in the processes and formalization of the work, yet also in the initial theoretical impulse. Indeed, their artistic thought equally incorporates a reflection on the fluids that permeate and define reality, from living bodies to technology. The artists subject these fluids to alchemical processes of fusion and crystallization, echoing the different stages of transformation of the surrounding environment, both natural and anthropogenic in origin. As noted by Esther Leslie in the seminal text "Liquid Crystals: The Science and Art of a Fluid Form" (2016), fluids are the liquid crystals of screens appropriated by Brett and the neutron stars replicated on their surface; the water, glass, and volcanic magma of Rowan; the aluminum alloys and molten metals in the casts of simulated bodies in artistic form by both. After all, fluid is the primordial soup.
A World Without End
Duo Show Gillian Brett & Hannah Rowan, Curated by Sara Dolfi Agostini. 2024
C+N Gallery CANEPANERI Genoa is delighted to present A World Without End, dual solo show by Gillian Brett & Hannah Rowan, curated by Sara Dolfi Agostini.
In the preface of The Cyborg Manifesto (1985), the influential American academic Donna J. Haraway envisioned a world without gender, without beginning and without end – free from the ideological dictates of Western capitalist thought and entrusted to a new hybrid entity, a synthesis of human and machine. Forty years later, a symbiotic and emancipated relationship with technology seems impossible in light of the authoritarian and expansionist tendencies that interconnect the physical and digital worlds. In the dual solo exhibition by Brett and Rowan a world without end imagined by Haraway takes on hallucinatory traits, featuring fragmented, replicating bodies, sensory short circuits, and material transformations.
Their practices, in some ways complementary, offer a similar physical involvement between the artist's body and the materials, producing in the viewer a pervasive sense of vulnerability. In this way, they suggest counterpoints, or breaks in the compact vision that intertwines technological progress and societal evolution, meeting conceptually not only in the processes and formalization of the work, yet also in the initial theoretical impulse. Indeed, their artistic thought equally incorporates a reflection on the fluids that permeate and define reality, from living bodies to technology. The artists subject these fluids to alchemical processes of fusion and crystallization, echoing the different stages of transformation of the surrounding environment, both natural and anthropogenic in origin. As noted by Esther Leslie in the seminal text "Liquid Crystals: The Science and Art of a Fluid Form" (2016), fluids are the liquid crystals of screens appropriated by Brett and the neutron stars replicated on their surface; the water, glass, and volcanic magma of Rowan; the aluminum alloys and molten metals in the casts of simulated bodies in artistic form by both. After all, fluid is the primordial soup.