{"id":21161,"date":"2023-03-05T12:41:21","date_gmt":"2023-03-05T04:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=21161"},"modified":"2023-03-22T16:00:58","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T08:00:58","slug":"heather-dewey-hagborg-closer-than-your-family-18-march-15-april-2023-press-release","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/portfolio-item\/heather-dewey-hagborg-closer-than-your-family-18-march-15-april-2023-press-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Heather Dewey-Hagborg &#8211; Closer Than Your Family | 18 March &#8211; 15 April 2023 &#8211; Press Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='artists-title'  class='avia-section av-2fvrrt5-ba15c04674bb7b8955d17810ef31fbd3 main_color avia-section-default avia-no-border-styling  avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  avia-bg-style-scroll  container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><main  role=\"main\" itemprop=\"mainContentOfPage\"  class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-21161'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n<div class='flex_column av-1ybjkix-506376301ed9f46b534d9921756f4224 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-1  el_before_av_one_full  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div '   ><p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-1ihlb49-60e129c81ce983e783bf1961b2e091ca\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-1ihlb49-60e129c81ce983e783bf1961b2e091ca{\nheight:20px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-1ihlb49-60e129c81ce983e783bf1961b2e091ca hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-2  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first  '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><h3 class=\"p1\" style=\"font-family: 'eb garamond'; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase; text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/portfolio-item\/heather-dewey-hagborg-closer-than-your-family-18-march-15-april-2023-works\/\">WORKS<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/portfolio-item\/heather-dewey-hagborg-closer-than-your-family-18-march-15-april-2023-press-release\/\">PRESS RELEASE<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/portfolio-item\/heather-dewey-hagborg-closer-than-your-family-18-march-15-april-2023-news\/\">NEWS<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><div class='flex_column av-15dipk9-49600d7027230afe00099578ec40559c av_one_full  avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_one_full  avia-builder-el-last  first flex_column_div column-top-margin'   ><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '  style='font-size:14px; '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'open sans thin'; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 25px; letter-spacing: 1px;\">Closer Than Your Family<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wei-Ling Gallery will host a much anticipated exhibition by the prominent and critically-acclaimed artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg with her exhibition entitled, \u2018<em>Closer Than Your Family<\/em>\u2019 features at our galleries from 18 March \u2013 15 April 2023.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Her First solo exhibition in Malaysia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This solo show by artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg features recent works that examine how cutting-edge developments in biotechnology are raising fundamental questions about what it means to be human.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Watson\u2019s Ghost<\/em> interrogates the interpretation of genetic data, presenting hundreds of interpretations of a single individual&#8217;s face based on their DNA. <em>Lovesick<\/em> presents a custom retrovirus designed to infect humans, irrevocably altering their genomes to make them more loving. <em>Hybrid: an Interspecies Opera<\/em> transforms research around xenotransplantation \u2013 the genetic engineering of pigs to supply human organs\u2013into a musical tribute to the creatures giving their lives for these scientific advances. Finally, Future pigs, plural, builds on the research from Hybrid to present a set of speculative portraits of pigs in the future, if human modification continues along the trajectory of today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Together these works probe the ways human beings are multitudes, via the subjectivity of interpretation, their genetic mutability, and their increasingly chimeric proximity to non-human animals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2018<em>Closer Than Your Family<\/em>\u2019 is featured at Wei-Ling Gallery from 18 March &#8211; 15 April 2023.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wei-Ling Gallery is located at No 8, Jalan Scott, Brickfields, 50470 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Admission hours are Tuesday \u2013 Friday 10am \u2013 6pm, Saturday 10am \u2013 5pm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Exhibition is open by appointment only. For appointments and further assistance, please contact +60322601106 or e-mail siewboon@weiling-gallery.com<\/p>\n<p><strong>ABOUT THE ARTIST<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Heather Dewey-Hagborg (B.1982) is an artist and biohacker who is interested in art as research and technological critique. Her controversial biopolitical art practice includes the project Stranger Visions in which she created portrait sculptures from analyses of genetic material (hair, cigarette butts, chewed up gum) collected in public places.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Heather has shown work internationally at events and venues including the World Economic Forum, the Daejeon Biennale, the Guangzhou Triennial, and the Shenzhen Urbanism and Architecture Biennale, Transmediale, the Walker Center for Contemporary Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and PS1 MoMA. Her work is held in public collections of the Centre Pompidou, the Victoria and Albert Museum, SFMoMA, among others, and has been widely discussed in the media, from the New York Times and the BBC to Art Forum and Wired.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Heather has a PhD in Electronic Arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is an Artist-in-Residence at the Exploratorium, and is an affiliate of Data &amp; Society. She is a founding board member of Digital DNA, a European Research Council funded project investigating the changing relationships between digital technologies, DNA and evidence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She is also a co-founder and co-curator of REFRESH, an inclusive and politically engaged collaborative platform at the intersection of Art, Science, and Technology.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-k85l61-5d229b447f019d357c707aa701472dc9\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-k85l61-5d229b447f019d357c707aa701472dc9{\nheight:40px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-k85l61-5d229b447f019d357c707aa701472dc9 hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-6  el_after_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-last  '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WORKS | PRESS RELEASE | NEWS Closer Than Your Family Wei-Ling Gallery will host a much anticipated exhibition by the prominent and critically-acclaimed artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg with her exhibition entitled, \u2018Closer Than Your Family\u2019 features at our galleries from 18 March \u2013 15 April 2023. 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