Joanna Grochowska "Slash Adornment"
Joanna Grochowska "Slash Adornment" 2020
Digital print, Acrylic Glass
Dimensions: 45 x 79 in
Limited Edition of 3 + 1AP
Signed on Verso, includes a certificate of authenticity.
Joanna Grochowska is a contemporary artist exploring transhumanism and human enhancement technologies. Her work contributes to the dialogue about morphological freedom and the future. The conceptual basis of her art are the notions of Transgression and Singularity. The dominant theme is the transhuman and posthuman figurativeness. She received the MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw; an alumna of the Jewish Open University of Shalom Foundation, Poland; member of the Humanity+ organization. Patron of the Zacheta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, the Frist Art Museum in Nashville and the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
“My work represents a creation of a new art movement - transhumanist art. The central question to my work is a quote from Klaus Schwab: What future do we want? What must we do to get there?
The TRANSHUMANISM exhibition is a continuation of the Opening the Future project of Joanna Grochowska, which was presented in Munich in 2021. The dominant theme addresses the subject of transhuman and posthuman figurativeness; encompasses the contexts of the future, morphological freedom and human enhancement technologies. The progress of technology evolution implies the emergence of new paradigms of gender, body and identity. The body becomes a symptom of the unnatural, edited and superior life form, posing a question of the possible shift of ethical lines and a change in definition of what is human. TRANSHUMANISM extends the discourse of the Post Human, a visionary series of exhibitions curated by Jeffrey Deitch in 1992. The work of Joanna Grochowska is an affirmation of transhumanist philosophy, worldview, and movement; integrates with the concepts of human enhancement technologies, the ideas of Elon Musk and Raymond Kurzweil; seeking the new aesthetics of the future.” - Joanna Grochowska