PROTOTYPE | 2022

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Lenticular print on aludibond, mounted on steel frames. 220x120 cm.

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Exhibited at Roskilde Festival 2022.

 

Is a newborn baby a human being that hasn’t been shaped by the norms of society yet? And how can we imagine the future that lies ahead of the youngest citizens of society?

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Settergren has made a series of lenticular prints presenting a fetus which transforms as you pass by. It morphs between an image showing the baby as a digital grid and an image showing the baby “rendered” in flesh and blood. By showing the baby as both a digital being and a non-gendered human, Settergren points to the foetus as an image of a radical future potentiality.

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With its cold and commercial aesthetics, the work – entitled Prototype – could be read as an obscure commercial for the child as a product that can be optimised in accordance with consumer demands. With its sci-fi imagery, Prototype investigates ideas of biology, biotechnology and the digital sphere and lets festival-goers reflect on the conditions of life in the future.

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- Curator Sarah Pihl

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Supported by: The Danish Arts Foundation, Bikuben Foundation, Roskilde Festival.

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