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Patricia Piccinini
Inter-natural, 1 December 2018 - 26 January 2019
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Patricia Piccinini: Inter-natural

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Patricia Piccinini, Inter-natural

In her second solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery, Patricia Piccinini presents an immersive installation of hyper-realistic sculptures probing the increasingly permeable boundaries of humanness.

For more than two decades, Piccinini has explored the potentialities—both liberating and threatening—inherent in our advancing capabilities in genetic engineering and artificial intelligence. Her meticulously-crafted sculptures envision a co-mingling of animal, plant, machine and human, questioning the ‘otherness’ of creatures, cyber-forms, and humans who don’t resemble ‘the norm.’ These imagined beings are nearly possible, embodying and reflecting the complex ethical issues of our times.

 

Connection and empathy are at the heart of Piccinini’s practice. The creatures she envisions share a deep emotional bond in a trans-species, posthuman version of love and relational ethics. In her catalog essay for Piccinini’s enormous survey exhibition, Curious Affection, at the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane, Rosi Braidotti states, “We need to rethink the human, the non-human, the inhuman, the trans- and post-human in an era defined both as the fourth industrial revolution and the sixth extinction… Piccinini challenges us to review our preconceived ideas and socially enforced relationships with the otherwise embodied.”

 

Patricia Piccinini was born in Sierra Leone in 1965 and currently resides in Melbourne. She was chosen to represent Australia in the 2003 Venice Biennale and her work has been the subject of numerous solo museum exhibitions worldwide. This year the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane presented a major solo exhibition of her work, and her 2016 solo museum exhibition in Brazil had the second highest attendance record of any global exhibition that year.

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Works
  • Patricia Piccinini The Couple, 2018 silicone, fiberglass, human hair, found objects installed dimensions variable 16 1/2 x 66 1/8 x 25 1/2 in/42 x 168 x 65 cm
    Patricia Piccinini
    The Couple, 2018
    silicone, fiberglass, human hair, found objects
    installed dimensions variable 16 1/2 x 66 1/8 x 25 1/2 in/42 x 168 x 65 cm
  • Patricia Piccinini Figure and Hummingbird, 2011 graphite on paper 22 1/4 x 30 in 56.5 x 76.2 cm
    Patricia Piccinini
    Figure and Hummingbird, 2011
    graphite on paper
    22 1/4 x 30 in
    56.5 x 76.2 cm
  • Patricia Piccinini The Builder, 2018 silicone, fiberglass, hair 21 1/4 x 15 3/8 x 28 3/8 in 54 x 39.1 x 72.1 cm
    Patricia Piccinini
    The Builder, 2018
    silicone, fiberglass, hair
    21 1/4 x 15 3/8 x 28 3/8 in
    54 x 39.1 x 72.1 cm
  • Patricia Piccinini Meditations on the continuum of vitality (garden), 2014 ink and gouache on paper 22 1/2 x 30 1/4 in 57.1 x 76.8 cm
    Patricia Piccinini
    Meditations on the continuum of vitality (garden), 2014
    ink and gouache on paper
    22 1/2 x 30 1/4 in
    57.1 x 76.8 cm
  • Patricia Piccinini Metaflora (eight pods), 2014 ink and gouache on paper 22 1/2 x 30 1/4 in 57.1 x 76.8 cm
    Patricia Piccinini
    Metaflora (eight pods), 2014
    ink and gouache on paper
    22 1/2 x 30 1/4 in
    57.1 x 76.8 cm
  • Patricia Piccinini Metaflora (three lobes), 2014 ink and gouache on paper 22 1/2 x 30 1/4 in 57.1 x 76.8 cm
    Patricia Piccinini
    Metaflora (three lobes), 2014
    ink and gouache on paper
    22 1/2 x 30 1/4 in
    57.1 x 76.8 cm
  • Patricia Piccinini A Deeply Held Breath, 2009 bronze 15 x 21 5/8 x 21 1/4 in 38.1 x 54.9 x 54 cm
    Patricia Piccinini
    A Deeply Held Breath, 2009
    bronze
    15 x 21 5/8 x 21 1/4 in
    38.1 x 54.9 x 54 cm
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Press
  • Installation view from "Patricia Piccinini: Inter-natural" at Hosfelt Gallery

    Patricia Piccinini: Not Playing God

    Gabriella Sonabend, London Curatorial, June 1, 2019
  • Patricia Piccinini, "The Couple," 2018

    Patricia Piccinini

    Barbara Morris, Artillery Magazine, March 5, 2019
  • Patricia Piccinini, "Metaflora (eight pods)," 2014, ink, gouache on paper, 26 1/2 x 34 inches

    Patricia Piccinini @ Hosfelt

    Justin Manley, Squarecylinder, December 30, 2018

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