Bogosi Sekhukhuni
HABITABLE ZONES
June 10 - July 22, 2023
An ecosystem searching for metabolic paths of survival,
the metaphysical cost is an obscurus, hiding at an anti-garden whose name is HOAX
(a fear of migratory touring tests in the post-2100s, when ambience has never existed)
allowing, absorbing teleological programs, so that a cognitive light cone might exceed its boundaries.
Even as the bulbous Nested peer idly at me
– Bogosi Sekhukhuni
Lender and designer Bogosi Sekhukhuni (b. 1991, South Africa) offers considerations on cultures and histories of technology. Working across a range of media such as sculpture, video, set design, furniture design and performance, Sekhukhuni develops approaches that think through mechanics of futurity.
Since 2012, Sekhukhuni’s work has been featured in both solo and group exhibitions, including Role Play, Fondazione Prada, Milan (2022); Age of You, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai (2021); Art in the Age of Anxiety, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah (2020); The Art Happens Here: Net Art’s Archival Poetics, New Museum, New York (2019); Bogosi Sekhukhuni, Foxy Production, New York (2018); Rencontres de Bamako, African Biennale of Photography, Mali (2017); and Simunye Summit 2010, Stevenson Gallery, Johannesburg (2017). They have been awarded the Prix Net Art Award, Rhizome, New York (2017). Sekhukhuni is a founding member of the artist group NTU and has worked closely with CUSS Group. Sekhukhuni is co-founder of design firm INFANT.
HABITABLE ZONES is supported in part by The Ford Family Foundation's Golden Spot Residency Program and West Seattle Garden Tour.
The Alien Earth: Bogosi Sekhukhuni
An essay by Michael Wang for HABITABLE ZONES
Michael Wang is an artist based in New York.
it’s constant awareness of mixotrophic delight
2023
Aluminum foil, Mylar, Rhodopseudomonas palustris, Sterling silver
Dimensions variable
HOAX (detail)
2023
Nostoc flagelliforme
Dimensions variable
it’s constant awareness of mixotrophic delight (detail)
2023
Aluminum foil, Mylar, Rhodopseudomonas palustris, Sterling silver
Dimensions variable
it’s constant awareness of mixotrophic delight (detail)
2023
Aluminum foil, Mylar, Rhodopseudomonas palustris, Sterling silver
Dimensions variable
it’s constant awareness of mixotrophic delight (detail)
2023
Aluminum foil, Mylar, Rhodopseudomonas palustris, Sterling silver
Dimensions variable
HOAX (detail)
2023
Nostoc flagelliforme
Dimensions variable
HOAX
2023
Nostoc flagelliforme
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it’s constant awareness of mixotrophic delight (detail)
2023
Aluminum foil, Mylar, Rhodopseudomonas palustris, Sterling silver
Dimensions variable
HOAX (detail)
2023
Nostoc flagelliforme
Dimensions variable
Pearl of Seattle i, ii
2023
Vacuum sealer bags, Rhodopseudomonas palustris
76 x 8 inches, 73 x 8 inches
Pearl of Seattle i, ii
2023
Vacuum sealer bags, Rhodopseudomonas palustris
76 x 8 inches, 73 x 8 inches
Pearl of Seattle i, ii
2023
Vacuum sealer bags, Rhodopseudomonas palustris
76 x 8 inches, 73 x 8 inches
Pearl of Seattle i, ii (detail)
2023
Vacuum sealer bags, Rhodopseudomonas palustris
76 x 8 inches, 73 x 8 inches
660-680 nm, 800-925 nm
2023
Aluminum foil, Mylar, Rhodospirillum rubrum, Trypic Soy Agar, Garagetrac tiles, Sterling silver, steel rings, steel staples
36 x 32 x 15 inches
660-680 nm, 800-925 nm (detail)
2023
Aluminum foil, Mylar, Rhodospirillum rubrum, Trypic Soy Agar, Garagetrac tiles, Sterling silver, steel rings, steel staples
36 x 32 x 15 inches
660-680 nm, 800-925 nm (detail)
2023
Aluminum foil, Mylar, Rhodospirillum rubrum, Trypic Soy Agar, Garagetrac tiles, Sterling silver, steel rings, steel staples
36 x 32 x 15 inches
light harvesting complex
2023
3d printed polylactic acid
Dimensions variable
light harvesting complex (detail)
2023
3d printed polylactic acid
Dimensions variable
light harvesting complex (detail)
2023
3d printed polylactic acid
Dimensions variable
light harvesting complex (detail)
2023
3d printed polylactic acid
Dimensions variable