Curated by the students from Goldsmiths MA Curating course, Human Nature is a group exhibition exploring the relationships between animal instincts and contemporary social conditioning. Using film, photography, sculpture, painting, and sound these internationally renowned artists investigate our reactions to natural landscapes and social environments, opening up a discussion on what it is to be human. Through comic dialogue and critical exploration Human Nature asks whether evolution has corrupted our dependence on natural surroundings and erased our primitive intuitions. When contemporary culture is heavily fuelled by reality television, national surveillance cameras, and fashionable camera phones, is it possible to still act instinctively, or is our behaviour defined by where we are and who is watching us?
Kindly supported by Arts Council England and Tropic Invest AG.
In-kind support from Martinspeed Ltd, Film and Video Umbrella, Hitachi and Eden Imaging.