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May 24, 2011
There is a survey exhibition of Patricia Piccinini's work entitled Once Upon A Time, now at the Art Gallery of South Australia.
Patricia Piccinini The Long Awaited, 2008, sculpture
Piccinini, who lives and works in Melbourne, is known both in Australia and internationally for her critique of what is natural and artificial in the current digital and technological world. Her sculpture, photography, video and installations interrogate issues such as biogenetics and cloning, bioethics, consumer culture, artifice and nature, in particular how these ideas are subtly changing our society.
She says, in describing her practice:
I am interested in the way that contemporary biotechnology and even philosophy erode the traditional boundaries between the artificial and the natural, as well as between species and even the basic distinctions between animal and human.
It is the concepts that underpin modern science, such as genetic engineering and other forms of biotechnology, that Piccinini explores.
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