MYTHICAL LIVING DATA

Noémie Soula

How does the environment shape our DNA?

Humans are introducing changes into the natural environment that are hard to predict – how might we evolve to adapt to this exposure, and potentially even benefit from it? Explore speculative future adaptations through different silicone chimera models. Touch a lung that could reduce the toxicity of inhaled chemicals or a liver able to filter and store microplastics. As we entangle with rising pollution levels, where do we end and where does our environment begin? We invite you to question your reactions and think of ways our bodies may change in response to an environment where synthetic materials could become the new natural.

Is this a future we want? What should we do to avoid it?

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Noémie Soula (France/UK) is an artist and researcher using storytelling and craft as creative tools to explore biotechnologies, genetics, and the relationship between human and non-human. Playing with the visceral and the liminality between reality and fiction, the created artworks, physical or digital, act as an uncanny event to stimulate the audience’s imagination.

With thanks to Institut Français for their generous support of this project.

Photography: Matthew Stanton