Transformism : Melanie Jackson and Revital Cohen

22 Jan-9 Mar 2013

Overview

The John Hansard Gallery begins 2013 with Transformism - two new commissions by Melanie Jackson and Revital Cohen. Commissioned by The Arts Catalyst, both artists, through their distinctive practices, have made new works exploring their interests in how cultural archetypes and ideas interweave with science and technology to create new shapes, visual forms and structures. As we develop the tools to manipulate and engineer new forms and systems of life, the exhibition considers our historical and contemporary entanglements with nature, technology and the economy, and how these relationships influence emergent forms in biological and synthetic matter, through sculpture, installation and moving image works.