mattermorphosis – WRO Art Center and IP Studio

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𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙥𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙞𝙨 – exhibition 

liquid bodies, chaotic lands and invisible systems

10.04 - 28.04.2024

💠WRO Art Center, Widok 7

💠IP Studio, Ruska 46A, room 401.3

🙌🏼10.04 at 18:00 - vernissage at IP Studio → WRO Art Center 

𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙥𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙞𝙨  presents nine premiere works by participants of the international Funken Academy program. The artists experimented at the Fraunhofer Institutes – assembling DNA, sculpting from a substrate soaked in mycelium, and processing information into virtual data, transforming it into precise metal structures🔬

𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙥𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙞𝙨  is an exhibition presenting the results of these processes. The installations shown at the WRO and the IP Studio create an intertwining, multithreaded narrative on technological transformations and their impact on material, our environment, bodies, and behavior.

Artists:

🌀Eugénie Desmedt

🌀Erwin Jeneralczyk

🌀Jonathan Joosten

🌀Hendrik Klatte

🌀Sonia Kujawa

🌀Laura Leppert

🌀Sohyun Lee

🌀Pai Litzenberger

🌀Charlotte Roschka

🌀Amelie Vierbuchen

🔵“𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙥𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙞𝙨 takes us on a journey through the complex and paradoxical nature of the materials with which the participants of the Funken Academy of artistic - technological research worked. They faced the challenges of capturing, showcasing and preserving mutating forms. They confronted the intangible matter of the nano-scale, sculpting invisible structures using DNA origami (DNA assembly). They explored the vulnerability of organic systems while attempting to provide the right conditions necessary to grow and work with unpredictable matter (mycelium). Finally, subjecting themselves to the very strict rules of working with machines, they attempted to encode information and data into metal artifacts (3D metal printing). Tasks carried out in Fraunhofer laboratories governed by very precise procedures, instructions and treatment protocols did not always produce the expected results: material sometimes degraded, interferences occurred. Materiality revealed its ambiguous identity, relationality and multivalence, thus pointing to the limitations of tools, our language, knowledge, and understanding.” – shares Dominika Kluszczyk, curator of the exhibition.