"Temporary State: Mutagenesis" is an exhibition designed by students in the "MBA in contemporary art: Sales, Display & Collecting" of IESA International.
"Temporary State: Mutagenesis" takes as its starting point the notions of transformation, hybridization and mutation and questions the processes of change and transition. Beyond these scientific concepts, the exhibition aims to uncover the forms that appear during this unpredictable transition process. How does what we know change? What hybrids and mutations result from this transitional journey? Thus emerges a more general question: if the ongoing mutations the environment is undergoing are inevitable, can we escape the point of no return?
Carried by the voice of Argentine artist Carolina Fusilier, who tells the story of a transformation through her soft images, the visitor discovers the work of eight artists, all exploring the concept of metamorphosis in a metaphorical way, proposing a sketch of the potential outcome of this transition process. Pointing to the impact of human beings on their environment, the French artist duo of Sylvain Wavrant and Aude Bourgine revisits the ecological disaster caused by the sinking of the Erika tanker in 1999 and shows wildlife suffocating under a wave of oil. Naomi Maury extends this idea by focusing on organic mutations, and creates sculptures that hint at the effects of time on living things, highlighting their transformations and alterations. Meanwhile, while Julien Renard and Agnieszka Szostek look at the fundamental physical transformations human beings will have to undergo to adapt to the changes the planet is experiencing, Caroline Purgal and Lauren Coullard go even further, to the edge of science fiction, imagining the human of the future as a hybrid, a kind of utopian 'collage' of a human being, an animal and a robot.
Exhibition at DOC from June 14 to 23 at DOC - 26, rue du Docteur Potain 75019 Paris - Every day from 14:00 to 20:00 - Opening night Friday, June 14 at 18:30