Heterotopia
Stockroom Kyneton, gallery two
14 September / 06 October 2019
ARA DOLATIAN
Heterotopia
Dolatian’s interdisciplinary practice explores the relationship between cultural landscapes and the natural ecosystem. Through his work he conflates a number of ideas around the themes of the studio and laboratory and in turn social and environmental politics. A hybrid ecosystem simultaneously resembles a semi-functional apparatus, the model of a utopian city and a biological experiment.
The work in this exhibition functions as visual interpretations of socio-cultural and technological developments, and aims to anticipate future topics while using the dichotomy of humanities and science. Art and science have been engaged in an exchange of ideas and narrative structures. The body of work is an abstract visualisation linking the human and the nonhuman and addressing the incipient intersection of nature, biology and technology.
