Curated by Theo Ellison, Supersublime is a group exhibition that explores how Romanticism continues to shape the digital age. Riffing off cinema’s perfected CGI landscapes, our anxiety over the emergence of AI and the undelivered promise of cryptocurrency, the show features video, sculpture, sound and print that digs into the uneasy relationship between technology, nature and nostalgia.
Supersublime
Saturday 8th July - Saturday 7th October 2023
Participating Artists:
00 Zhang | Damien Roach | Guan Xiao | Jennifer Steinkamp | Joe Moss | Jordan Wolfson | Samuel Capps | Simon Denny | Sofia Albina Novikoff Unger | Sophie Rogers | Theo Ellison | Theo Triantafyllidis
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Artist Bio's
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00 Zhang is a Chinese-born London-based artist whose practice spans sculpture, installation, CGI animations and interactive virtual environments to explore the crossover between the real, the virtual and the video game worlds.
Zhang’s recent exhibitions include; Shattered Heliocentric Orbit, Broadway Gallery, Nottingham (2022); The Production of Post-Truth, Ugly Duck, London (2022); Kissaten/Tea Room, University College London, London (2022); and Escape Before the Heat Death of the Universe: the Digital ‘Peach Blossom Paradise’ and Virtual Hedonism, Thetis S.p.A., Venice (2022). Zhang has participated in brand collaborations with Nike, Dior, Balenciaga and Shanghai Fashion Week.
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Damien Roach is a London-based artist, researcher and educator who works with various projects across fine art, design, publishing and music. Roach’s sculptures, projections and installations challenge perception and ask the viewer to rethink the everyday visual forms and structures that surround us. Roach prompts this re-examination through subtle and sometimes barely noticeable alterations to objects, images and environments.
He has exhibited internationally, including at the 51st Venice Biennale, ‘Learn to Read’ at Tate Modern, ‘Housewarming’ at Swiss Institute NYC, and solo presentations at institutions including DRAF (London), Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen (Switzerland), Arnolfini (Bristol), and Neuer Aachener Kunstverein (Germany).
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Guan Xiao is a Beijing-based artist whose sculpture and video works are rooted in transnational culture and immersed in our technology-fueled present. She creates a visual language that challenges historical and cultural boundaries by establishing diverse relationships between a variety of rich materials, and uses collage to blend classical art with industrial manufacturing.
Xiao has been the subject of solo exhibitions at institutions worldwide including Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany (2019); Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (2019); Kunsthalle Winterthur, Switzerland (2018); Jeu de Paume, Paris (2016); and Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2016). Recent and notable group exhibitions include Post-Capital, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2022); Though It’s Dark, Still I Sing, 34th Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil (2021); Viva Arte Viva, 57th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (2017)
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Jennifer Steinkamp is an LA-based artist who works exclusively with digital media to render organic and abstract forms in motion, exploring the often-unseen complexities of the natural environment. Her immersive installations are projected at a large scale in response to the architectural interiors in which they appear and alter the viewer’s typical experience of an object within a gallery.
Recent solo exhibitions include Moody Center for the Arts, Houston, (2022); Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, (2021); The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, (2021); Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, South Korea (2021); and the Cheongju Museum of Art, South Korea (2021)
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Joe Moss is a London-based artist currently undertaking an MA at the Slade School of Fine Art. Moss’ diverse output ranges across mosaics, sculpture and video in the form of solo presentations, radio production and collaborative exhibition-making.
Recent projects include Model Village at NN Contemporary, Homegrown at Hauser & Wirth online, residencies at Eastcheap Projects UK and Stokkoyart Norway, a commission for Future Artefacts on RTM.fm and The London Bronze Editions Foundry Fellowship.
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Jordan Wolfson is an LA-based artist known for his provocative work in a range of mediums, including sculpture, installation, video, photography, digital animation, and performance. Filtering the languages of online and broadcast media through digital and mechanical technologies, and employing an array of invented characters, he crafts enigmatic narratives that explore uncomfortable social and existential topics.
Solo exhibitions of the artist’s work were presented in 2022 at the Brant Foundation, New York; and Kunsthaus Bregenz. In 2018, the inaugural London presentation of Jordan Wolfson’s Colored sculpture took place in the Tanks at Tate Modern. In 2016, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam hosted a two-part survey of the artist’s work, MANIC/LOVE/TRUTH/LOVE.
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Samuel Capps is a London-based multidisciplinary artist and curator whose interest lies in the intersection between natural materiality and technology; embracing the new and approaching cultural age in which everything is becoming blurred.
Recent shows include Codex Exophora, (2018), at the Dyson Gallery, Royal College of Art, London; Exon Tide, (2018), at the Chalton Gallery, London; and Hyperelixx, (2017), an online web project (www.hyperelixx.com). Capps runs London-based gallery Gossamer Fog, which exhibits work that explores the interconnectedness between art, science and technology.
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Simon Denny is a New Zealand-born artist based in Berlin. His work unpacks the stories technologists tell us about the world using a variety of media including installation, sculpture, print, painting, video, and NFTs, taking a critical look at the cultural impact of new technologies and the people that drive them.
Recent shows include; Curated Selection: New Painting, Sculpture, and Works on Paper (2020) Petzel Gallery, New York; Altman Siegel (2020), Art Basel OVR, Miami Beach; Pioneers (2021) Petzel Gallery at Art Basel OVR; Mine (2021), Petzel Gallery, New York; Mine (2019), Museum of Old and New Art Tasmania, Australia; the Venice Biennale (2015), representing new Zealand; the Venice Biennale (2013) curated exhibition; and the Baloise Art Prize, (2012) at Art Basel for Channel Document.
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Sofia Novikoff Unger is a Russian-Danish artist based between London and Copenhagen. She works with video, installation, textiles, 3d-printing and sound to explore the cross-hatching of nature and artifice, folding each in on the other to create new hybrids and myths emerging from the depths of a hypertech dystopia.
Exhibitions include; 21st Century Fox, 2021, Tranen, Copenhagen; Spectacular Slippiness, 2021, In The Closet, Tromsø, NO; Faith is a Cascade, 2021, Seager Gallery, London; A Slow Longing Collapse, 2019, Broadway Gallery, Letchworth Garden City, UK; Sea2_Serafim+Bama on The L Word, 2019
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Sophie Rogers is a London-based artist working with CGI, electronics and gaming. Science-fiction, fantasy and video games greatly influence Rogers’s work, particularly in relation to storytelling and world-building. She uses sculpture and software to create imagined places which entangle hybrid creatures and fictional ecosystems to explore narratives between humans, machines and games.
Rogers has previously shown work with organisations including: Hymodernity x Frieze, Mansions of the Future, The Barbican, Tate Modern and online with Electric Artefacts, Digital Artist Residency, Hervisions, Is This It? and Self Publish Be Happy TV. Commissions include; Art Night, Boiler Room TV, Tate Kids, I:D and Universal Studios.
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Theo Ellison is a London-based artist whose work looks to tease out our vulnerability to Romanticised narratives, exploring how they shape our relationship with nature, technology and nostalgia. He uses video, sound, 3D- printed sculpture and text to both indulge and unfold the layers of illusion that surround how we construct and consume those narratives; testing the boundaries between pathos and humour, observation and voyeurism, and nature and artifice.
Recent exhibitions include; In The Offing, Turner Contemporary, Margate, 2023; Just Like That, Coleman Projects, London, 2023; Visions in the Nunnery, Bow Arts, London, 2022; The Football Art Prize, UK touring exhibition, 2022-2023; NatureMax, Giant Gallery, 2021; Lounge Arrival, Arebyte Gallery, 2018; Known Unknowns, Saatchi Gallery, 2018. He was selected for the CIRCA x Dazed Class of 2022.
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Theo Triantafyllidis is an LA-based artist who works with digital and physical media to explore the experience of space and the mechanics of embodiment in hybrid realities. Utilising algorithms and game engines, virtual reality headsets and experimental performance processes, he creates interactions within immersive environments. In Triantafyllidis’s worlds, awkward interactions, precarious physics, and juxtaposed timeframes mingle with uncanny, absurd and poetic situations, inviting the viewer to engage with new realities.
Recent shows include; Feral Metaverse, (2023), Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin, Germany; Pheromone Spa, (2022) The Breeder, Athens, Greece; The Metaverse and How We’ll Build it Together, (2022) Meredith Rosen Gallery, New York, USA; Radicalization Pipeline, (2021), Eduardo Secci, Milan, Italy; Nature is Healing, Ritual, (2020), ONLINE, Meredith Rosen Gallery, New York, USA; Pastoral, (2019), Eduardo Secci, Florence, Italy; and 360, (2019), Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK.