Looking at and beyond the impact of Surrealism, the artists in this exhibition utilise the energy of their personal and collated memories to create material that subverts reality, and in doing so, allows new possibilities to spill into the visible world and collective consciousness.
JOEUN KIM AATCHIM | MICHELLE BLADE | ANGELA BULLOCH | LEONORA CARRINGTON | M. FLORINE DÉMOSTHÈNE | SHANA HOEHN | PARKER ITO | HORTENSIA MI KAFCHIN | YAYA YAJIE LIANG | JESSIE MAKINSON | ANA MENDIETA | PAULINA OLOWSKA | CATALINA OUYANG | JACOPO PAGIN | MAI-THU PERRET | MIGUEL ANGEL PAYANO JR. | PABLO PICASSO | ROKSANA PIROUZMAND | PAULO NIMER PJOTA | ANDREW SENDOR | JIM SHAW | KIKI SMITH | ALDO URBANO | ASTRA HUIMENG WANG | MARNIE WEBER | XU YANG | XIE LEI | XIN LIU | YURI YUAN | GUIMI YOU
Curated by Emilia Yin and Kat Sapera, the group exhibition Machines of Desire pursues the idea of “the desire machine” as a metaphor for the transcendent, glitch-triggering effect that art in the modern era can engender. With a focus on both historical and contemporary artists whose works play with and complicate familiar aesthetic languages and functions, Machines of Desire seeks to encourage a reading of art as a mode of contemporary mythology or folklore, a space where shared documents of memory metamorphose into forms previously unrealised.
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