2024/01/05

Critic Marvels over Tishan Hsu’s Unsettling “Cyborgian Devices”

● 05/01/2024
“Tishan Hsu evokes the twinned ways that technology both estranges and enlivens our bodies. It’s work clearly born of an era in which cyborgian devices—pacemakers, nebulizers, insulin pumps—are enabling longer lives. How miraculous, and how bizarre.”
– Critic Emily Watlington, describing Tishan Hsu’s current exhibition at Secession Vienna. The posthuman digital forms in the show are so grotesque Watlington found herself asking a disquieting question when viewing the work: “Which orifice am I looking at?”
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