Art to make you think in new ways about Malta and mankind
International artist Anna Dumitriu takes the latest technology in science and medicine and weaves it into curious art installations created using digital, biological and traditional media – from ceramics to textiles – to fascinate both scientists and non-scientists. Her first solo exhibition in Malta, BioArt Alchemy at Spazju Kreattiv, showing till October 30, addresses a wide range of time and topics ranging from the origins of society to cutting-edge genetics and the possibility of bacterially enhanced super-humans. “The exhibition looks to the future, yet the word alchemy references the past,” says Dumitriu. Anna Dumitriu “Although alchemy has magical undertones, much science and medicine stems from this ancient wisdom. Interestingly, the aims of synthetic biology – like life-extension, transmutation and transformation – match those of alchemists: there’s a strong resonance between 21st century research and the past!” Spanning man’s earliest millennia to fresh technology, Dumitriu’s installation Fermenting Futures (in collaboration with Alex May and scientists at BOKU in Vienna) explores the significance of yeast from a cultural, scientific and aesthetic...