Katya Venter, How to be a Good Doll (detail), 2022. 3D pen filament. Courtesy: the artist and Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts.

This exhibition reflects upon the current age of digital and technological augmentation and the customisation of bodies (including 3D-printed body parts, artificial skin transplants, plastic surgeries, clones and gene selection). Through the body of work, Katya Venter fantasises about the future of human and animal bodies through the allegory of doll characters as playful yet uncanny objects of our early life. Accordingly, How to be a Good Doll employs lighting, shadows, paper and 3D-printed techniques to question what makes dolls good, bad, scary or benign.

Opening night: Friday 26 August, 6 – 8pm.