Feb News | exhibited.at

Hello! I’m delighted to share our news for February! TL;DR it’s been a wonderful art filled 2 months already.

We’re incredibly excited to be working with Connie Bakshi, bringing her work to one of our favourite galleries in San Francisco, Glass Rice.

Connie Bakshi is a Los Angeles-based artist with a background in classical piano and biomedical engineering. A descendant of Taiwan’s ancestral shamans, she primarily works with artificial intelligence to explore a post-colonial future of radical identity, where distinctions between human and non-human, synthetic and organic, material and immaterial blur and dissolve.

We first met Connie several years ago where a dynamic digital artwork we collaborated on was curated into an exhibition at Lobkowicz Palace, Prague. Her provocative works seek to guide humans towards a better understanding of themselves, drawing equally on new technologies such as 3D modelling, blockchain, artificial intelligence and ancient mythologies.

For our partnership with Glass Rice, a limited edition of 20 signed prints, each $125 USD from Connie’s work ‘Bone of My Bones’ will be available at Strip Mall, the gallery’s conceptual store.

‘Bone of My Bones’ renders an act of emergence through the lens of artificial intelligence. Drawing from both the Chinese myth of Nüwa – the serpentine goddess who molded humanity from earth and water – and Abrahamic creation narratives, the work considers themes of historical erasure, fragmented memory, and cybernetic reconstitution. 

“On the seventh day, while walking along a river, she glimpsed her own reflection. She sat beside the flowing water and ran it through her fingers. Removing one of her ribs, she then took water from the river and molded the liquid around the bone forming a creature which resembled herself. And she said, ‘This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh.’ And she saw what she had made and saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the seventh day.”

To acquire this print or learn more, send us a message at [email protected]

We’re honoured to have our artists at Glass Rice in the month of March and look forward to sharing more information on the exhibition soon. In the meantime, I’d love to catch you at the opening in San Francisco, Saturday March 1st, information below, let me know if you can make it + rsvp: here.

Thanks so much, until March’s newsletter,

Ro.