Unseen Worlds – Fertile Ground
1 July 2023 - 3 September 2023
Fife Contemporary is pleased to announce Artist in Residence Emma Varley’s exhibiting work Unseen Worlds – Fertile Ground, presented at the Bioscope Pavilion, St Andrew’s Botanic Garden from 1 July – 3 September 2023. Emma Varley uses AI software as a tool to facilitate a glimpse into the unseen worlds of The Tangled Bank, a coastal environment in the heart of the garden.
‘It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, …elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent on each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us.’ From Origin of Species, Charles Darwin.
This microcosm captured her imagination; a world where native plants jostle and intermingle in their communities on fertile ground, reflecting larger ecosystem beyond. In response she has developed her own ‘elaborately constructed forms’ to create a generated animation of complex digital stills, which she evolved into the time-based artwork being screened in the Bioscope. Unseen Worlds offers the viewer a closer look at the evolution of nature and of technology, and how connected we all are to laws acting around us.
Find out more about this residency here.
