“A dialogue emerges between the human and the technological, evoking the hybrid figure of the cyborg. This connection is explored in the exhibition through works that present a new relationship between the body and technology. X-Ray Woman FIG.8 and Self-Portrait as Another Person FIG.9 by Lynn Hershman Leeson (b.1941) probe the fluidity of identity, blurring the lines between who we are and who we might become. In Self-Portrait as Another Person, a wax cast of the artist’s face, disguised with a wig and lipstick, becomes a medium for reflecting on the ambiguity of selfhood and the illusion of control. The sound of her breath, recorded during a stay in hospital, along with a sensor that triggers personal questions, prompts the viewer to reconsider identity as something suspended between the real and the artificial. Hershman Leeson’s work questions the notion of a stable subject, positioning technology as an extension of both body and psyche – a vehicle for mining the complexity of being. Anticipating post-human thought, her practice prefigures Donna J. Haraway’s cyborg theory, which holds that the body is not confined to its biological essence but shaped by technology. This also resonates with Legacy Russell’s ‘glitch feminism’, which sees the glitch as an interruption of conventions that opens pathway to non-binary and non-normative identities.”

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“Behind this mask, another mask; I will never be done with removing all these faces,” wrote artist and poet Claude Cahun in 1930. Throughout the 20th century, artists have imagined the body and ideas of the self as fluid and open to ongoing...