Refraction. The Image of Sense, Blain|Southern

In an age when the world is simultaneously human and non-human, and social interaction is more about your Facebook profile than the quips of a real conversation; the web has become a container for memories, dreams, beliefs and perversions. In this new contemporary art exhibition at Blain | Southern Art Gallery London, the repercussions of our ‘networked society’ are placed under the artistic microscope.
Amongst the work on display, paintings by Ida Ekblad trace haunting alien forms with washes, aerosols and inks, and Magali Reus’s fridge-like sculptures evoke the machine-like functionality of the human body.
Culture Whisper favourite Bill Viola also explores the boundaries of video technology with his experimental work Information (1973).
With some three quarters of Refraction’s exhibitors born in the 1980s, expect to see a lively and diverse showcase of aesthetics - digital work, glass assemblages and painting - all attempting to digest the modern world.