Bloodchild: symbiosis between humanity and technology in Verona

Fondazione Spazio Vitale in Verona presents 'Bloodchild. Scenes from a Symbiosis', a group exhibition curated by Domenico Quaranta exploring human-technology hybridization. The show features works by Ivana Bašić, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Oliver Laric, and Sahej Rahal. Leeson's video 'Logic Paralyzes the Heart' (2022), first shown at the Venice Biennale, features Joan Chen as a retiring cyborg reflecting on AI's origins in warfare and surveillance, with a script co-written with ChatGPT3. Rahal's interactive installation 'Druj' (2021) uses AI to generate a posthuman creature that morphs in response to viewer sounds. Laric's looped video 'Exoskeleton' meditates on organic-inorganic metamorphosis. The exhibition argues that symbiotic collaboration between humans and technology—where technology becomes a subject, not an object—may offer solutions to ecological collapse. Quaranta describes the future human as 'the fruit of a difficult and tormented marriage.' The show runs at Fondazione Spazio Vitale in Verona.