Patricia Piccinini @ Haunch of Venison – London

A first for Australian artist and hyperrealist sculptor Patricia Piccinini and her disturbing creatures, who is finally getting her own solo exhibition in London after entering V&A last year.

Haunch of Venison will be hosting a good bunch of Patricia’s intimate & industrial works featuring for this show five new large-scale sculptural works alongside earlier works dating from 2005 to 2011.

Always experimenting with a wide range of media, including sculpture, video, drawing… Piccinini’s works examine the increasingly blurred boundary between the artificial and the natural as it appears in contemporary culture. Is she willing to humanise technology? homogenise our human perception? Prepares us for the upcoming and inevitable man-machine evolution?

She is fascinated with both medical science and bio technology and how the subject can be used to explore the fears and concerns of modern society, such as appearance, ageing and disease. Much like an artist in past might, look to religion or myths as a known narrative to present ideas, Piccinini uses science as the underlying mode by which we explain our contemporary world, and of a human desire for a better future for each generation going forward.

Alien creatures and human mutations constantly questioning the “fast-paced” society we live in and that will be present @haunchofvenison until mid-January. More info this way.