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CURATORIAL STATEMENT

Unbearable is a series of shiny (and shocking) pink digital sculptures, giving a cyborg alternative to a binary understanding of the female reproductive system by bio artist Lyndsey Walsh, a department fellow in the Experimental Biophysics group of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Now available to a digital audience, Unbearable was a key exhibit at the TAEX’s show for Frieze New York One Night Between Heaven and Hell. All visitors faced two of the Unbearable sculptures as a part of the portal to get to the exhibition, it was the beginning of the augmented worlds of dreams and nightmares we introduced in the show. Walsh’s project is indeed foundational: based on the result of both historical and material research, it reveals a reductionist view of parts of the female body, constructed by Western medicine. Being a poetic fantasy itself, the project undermines the fantasy side of medical research, especially when it comes to the skewed vision of women.