Installation

另一個歷史:基因髮廊
Genetic Salon - A Corner of Alternative History


Dimensions Variable
Digital Printed on Papers, Sands, Flashlights, Wooden Brushes

2021

後人類敍事的個人展覽,余淑培展出基因髮廊和五位招待女郎的故事。今次將會逐一揭開基因髮廊牽涉的歷史事件和局勢,當中包含發生過和可能發生的歷史情景,它們如何觸發了這個未來的誕生。

五位招待女郎的故事交代了這個未來是視基因為主宰一切的基礎,也是流通的貨幣;基因編輯帶領我們邁向更理想的存在,更品嚐到成為非人類物種的滋味。在朝向人工化和科技的軌道上,自然則成為了這個世界的敵對者。


Yu showed the story of Genetic Salon and five receptionists in her solo online exhibition of Post-Human Narratives. This time, the historical events that are involved in the Genetic Salon will be uncovered one by one by the brushing away of the layers of sand. Below lies newspapers, revealing historical scenarios that have occurred and may occur, and how they have triggered the emergence of this future.

The whole worldview of the “Genetic Salon” narrative explains that this future preceives genes as the basis for dominating everything; it is also the currency of circulation. Gene manipulation paves the way to a more ideal existence, and lends us a chance to get a taste of living as a non-human species. On the technological trajectory towards artificialization, the notion of the natural has become the enemy of this world.

Exhibition: Post-Human Narratives—The Co-existing Land, Cattle Depot Artist Village, Hong Kong.
Photos taken by Wave Channel HK



Exhibition: Post-Human Narratives—The Co-existing Land, Cattle Depot Artist Village, Hong Kong.
Photos taken by Frankie Chan from Wave Channel HK




Exhibition: STRUKTURA TIME, Gallri BOA, Oslo.
Photos taken by Jacky Jaan Yuan Kuo


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