Patricia Piccinini’s Thought-Provoking World at ARKEN

Balasz Takac, Widewalls, February 15, 2019

Our daily lives and experiences have become entirely digitized, so much so that even our bodies became modified. It is not just our gaze that was transformed by the continuous use of various devices - it is our movement, and the position of body parts which have changed as well. That being said, humans are practically turning into cyborgs, while a number of different mutations are happening in the distant, hidden corners of rapid technological growth.

An artist dealing with the ever-changing nature of the human body in the digital era is Patricia Piccinini, who expresses herself through different media, yet she is best known for her odd anthropomorphic sculptures