Revital Cohen and Tuur Van Balen translate our times of automated and standardized production technologies into performative installations, provocative objects, and subtly aestheticized documentary films. While the biological sciences shift their focus from analysis to synthesis, adopting a language of engineering that focuses less on living beings than on components, circuits and systems, the artists examine our changing values. Their new work "Sterile" revolves around albino goldfish designed to be born without reproductive organs, presented alongside a machine – put in stand-by mode – capable of reproducing sterile fish to demand from pre-extracted sperm and eggs. In "75 Watt" and "Pigeon d’Or," human and animal organisms are being used in highly controlled (dys)functional processes.
© Picture: Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen: “Sterile”
