>Ian Dawson
> Group Exhibition: Is The Image Even Human Curated by Jasone Miranda-Bilbao
>Cervantes Institute New Delhi 9/03/2023 – 05/05/2023
>Online edition launched on 07/02/2023 in conjunction with India Art Fair Delhi 2023
Participating artists Anna Brass, Hot Desque, Ian Dawson, Jemma Egan, Jignesh Panchal, Jos Martin, Karin Ruggaber, Leire Muñoz, Mark Hosking, Mhairi Vari, M Pravat, Ole Hagen, Oona Grimes, Plastique Fantastique, Sachin Tekade, Sarah Kate Wilson, Shivangi Ladha, Srinivas Kuruganti, Ted Le Swer, Vandana Kothari, Xintong Zhang.
Link to online exhibition at www.ideastravelfasterthanlight.com
> Group Exhibition: Is The Image Even Human Curated by Jasone Miranda-Bilbao
>Cervantes Institute New Delhi 9/03/2023 – 05/05/2023
>Online edition launched on 07/02/2023 in conjunction with India Art Fair Delhi 2023
Participating artists Anna Brass, Hot Desque, Ian Dawson, Jemma Egan, Jignesh Panchal, Jos Martin, Karin Ruggaber, Leire Muñoz, Mark Hosking, Mhairi Vari, M Pravat, Ole Hagen, Oona Grimes, Plastique Fantastique, Sachin Tekade, Sarah Kate Wilson, Shivangi Ladha, Srinivas Kuruganti, Ted Le Swer, Vandana Kothari, Xintong Zhang.
Exhibited works:
Sturge.2291.remix 2022 PLA 3D Printed.
WG.2350.remix 2022 PLA 3D Printed.
Both exhibited pieces by Dawson are re-imaginings of neolithic stone-age objects. These objects were first encountered on a field trip to The British Museum Archive, where both objects reside. These neolithic carved stone balls are found across the British Isles and come from a period of transition from hunter gatherer to plant cultivation. Much is discussed about their origins. Some think that they evidence advanced mathematical skills, others that they were part of didactic processes. These objects were first scanned and transformed into 3D digital artefacts before being reinstantiated as physical objects through the 3D print process, thus conjoining technologies separated by 6,000 years. By continuing a movement of these objects from Neolithic to Anthropocene. Stone to Plastic. Solid to digital to solid. British Isles to the Global South, these objects trace the transformation of matter through extended processes.
The question Is the image even human? Imaginatively throws up the counterpoint- what is human about the image? Who else makes images, do they have an autonomous life of their own and can they exist independently from humans? And can we exist independently from them, is it possible to think imagelessly? do we make images or do they make us? where do they originate and how might we live and think in their absence? The works in the exhibition look at us in a playful manner as if in a house of mirrors where the world seems to be arranged differently.
Link to online exhibition at www.ideastravelfasterthanlight.com