Artists: Julieta Aranda, Dora Budor, Andrea Crespo, Nicolas Deshayes, Aleksandra Domanović, David Douard, Jana Euler, Cécile B. Evans, Melanie Gilligan, Oliver Laric, Johannes Paul Raether, Pamela Rosenkranz, Stewart Uoo, Lu Yang, Anicka Yi
Exhibition title: Inhuman
Curated by: Susanne Pfeffer
Venue: Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
Date: March 29 – June 14, 2015
Photography: ©Achim Hatzius, images copyright and courtesy of the artists and Fridericianum
“From the perspective of the present, the future of humanity might be monstrous… but this is not necessarily a bad thing.”
– Julieta Aranda
The image of the human being has changed significantly in recent decades. Technological innovations, socioeconomic transformations, and new insights gained in neurology compel us to rethink the constructs that define what is human and enable us to conceive them anew in the form of the inhuman.
The artists participating in the exhibition “Inhuman” offer visions of the human being as a socially trained yet resistant body, transcending biologically or socially determined gender classifications, as a digitally immortal entity, or as a constantly evolving self. They visualize the constructs that define what is human and shift existing perspectives on human subjectivity and the body, thereby questioning the primacy of the human being at a fundamental level.
Curated by Susanne Pfeffer
The exhibition “Inhuman” is funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation. Responsible for the Fridericianum is the documenta und Museum Fridericianum Veranstaltungs-GmbH.
Julieta Aranda, Stealing one’s own corpse (An alternative set of footholds for an ascent into the dark), 2014
Budor Dora, The Architect, Mind Falls Apart, 2014
Crespo Andrea, sis : parabiosis. neurolibidinal induction complex, 2015 (still)
Nicolas Deshayes, above: Vein Section (or a cave painting), 2015 (detail) / below: Cramps, 2015
Aleksandra Domanović, HeLa on Zhora’s coat, 2015
Aleksandra Domanović, HeLa on Zhora’s coat, 2015
David Douard, We’ve Ne’er Gotten, 2015 / UP BEAT UP’’ rendition, 2014
Jana Euler, under this perspective, 1, 2015. © Photo: Nils Klinger
Cécile B. Evans, Hyperlinks or It Didn’t Happen, 2014 (still)
Melanie Gilligan, The Common Sense, 2014–15 (still)
Oliver Laric, The Hunter and His Dog, 2014
Oliver Laric, The Hunter and His Dog, 2014 (detail)
Johannes Paul Raether, Cave of Reproductive Futures, 2015
Pamela Rosenkranz, Living Colors, 2012
Stewart Uoo, Security Window Grill VII, 2014 (detail)
Lu Yang, UterusMan, 2013 (still)
Anicka Yi, Le Pain Symbiotique, 2014