‘We Are a Blight on Nature’: Machine Master Conrad Shawcross on Artificial Intelligence, Acid House, and Turning a Car Into a Kinetic Sculpture
Conrad Shawcross’s art points out, gently but firmly, the fallibility of cerebral disciplines. Science and math, in Shawcross’s empathetic work, are shown to be human and flawed. Limen 72.9, a sculptural installation from his 2000 MFA show at Slade School of Fine Art in London, was a capsized boat topped with an oversized cage which his recent Instagram caption described as representing “the lifelong search for a beast that in the end overpowers you.”
Image: Conrad Shawcross, Golden Lotus (Inverted), 2019
© Conrad Shawcross
Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro, London/Venice
Installation View, Conrad Shawcross, Seana Gavin (works on wall)
Sweet Harmony: Rave | Today, 12 July – 14 September 2019
© Gideon Hart, 2019
Image courtesy of Saatchi Gallery, London
