Lynn Hershman Leeson at New York's New Museum

Pioneering American artist Lynn Hershman Leeson has recently opened her first solo museum exhibition in New York at the New Museum. For over half a century Hershman Leeson has created an extensive body of work that interrogates technologies relationship with the body. The show features Seduction of a Cyborg (1994) which is also held in the Zabludowicz Collection. The single-channel video documents a woman's desire for technology to heal her ailments, seeing her dragged into a simulated world resulting in her immune system becoming destroyed.

“Imagine a world in which there is a blurring between the soul and the chip, a world in which artificially implanted DNA is genetically bred to create an enlightened and self-replicating intelligent machine, which perhaps uses a human body as a vehicle for mobility.” - Lynn Hershman Leeson, 1998

Lynn Hershman Leeson: Twisted at the New Museum until 3 October 2021. Watch the artist in conversation with curator Margot Norton.