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Louisa Clement:compression, 2023
Exhibition
Louisa Clement: compression
2 Mar 2023 – 15 Apr 2023
Regular hours
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 18:00
Free admission
Travel Information
- S1/S2 Oranienburger Strasse
About
We are very pleased to show the first solo exhibition of Louisa Clement (lives and works in Bonn) at the Galerie EIGEN + ART in Berlin.
How do we locate ourselves in our present that is shaped by digitalization and the possibility of biotechnological reproducibility? What are the media of human access to the world? How does technology alter our self and our interactions with others? Louisa Clement makes use of a broad palette of media to deal with the fluidity of these complex questions; photography, video, and sculpture are genres that play a role in her oeuvre. Her practice thereby often opens itself to the newest technologies. For example, for her photos, she often uses her Smartphone camera and works with virtual reality and artificial intelligence.
Today, the development of such an artificial intelligence, the storing of digital photos, and almost every other area of our everyday lives are shaped by the binary code of 0 and 1, the language of computers and digital networks. Clement’s newest work, compression (2023), makes use of a new bio-cybernetic method of storage: DNA data storage. Digital data can be translated from the binary code into the DNA code based on four amino acids. Clement uses this technology to translate her entire oeuvre up to now into a sequence of adenine (A), thymine (T), cytosine (C), and guanine (G). The resulting double helix is preserved in a tiny stainless-steel casing. The body itself can thus become a carrier medium for an enormous amount of data. With this new work, Clement inscribes traces of her artistic production in her own body by having this double helix implanted in it. She incarnates her own work again. What does this technology mean for our corporeality and identity? The body becomes a potential archive, but at the same time also a possible field for further bio-capitalistic exploitation.
Louisa Clement
compression
2023
Steel base with glass lid; synthetic DNA in aluminium capsule
160 x 30 x 30 cm
courtesy Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig/Berlin
