CHANEL NEXUS HALL

Entangled Others –《specious upwellings》detail

Entangled Others –《specious upwellings》

Entangled Others -《self-contained 009.4》
Art Singapore ©Gazelli Art House

2025.10.4 SAT - 12.7 SUN

11:00 - 19:00
*Open from 11:00 to 16:30 on Oct 4

Open daily / Free admission

INTRODUCTION

This autumn, CHANEL Nexus Hall presents a cutting-edge exhibition that combines AI, art, and ecology.
The pioneering work of Sofia Crespo will feature alongside that of Entangled Others—the collaborative duo she forms with artist-researcher Feileacan Kirkbride McCormick. Both are gaining international recognition for their innovative explorations of digital technologies.

The exhibition will feature five series: liquid strata: argomorphs which explores the world 2,000 metres below the ocean’s surface; specious upwellings, which connects the global phenomenon of oceanic upwelling—the natural process where cold, nutrient-rich water rises to the surface—with the visual language of AI; Temporally Uncaptured, inspired by the histories of botany and photography; self-contained, which overlays the structures of genetic information and digital data; and artificial natural history which is based on the concept of “a natural history book that never existed”. Each series presents a vision created at the crossroads of poetic imagination and scientific inquiry, interpreting the world through fragments and hypotheses.

The images generated by AI are not substitutes for nature. Rather, they reflect the deep-seated human desire for creative evolution. As the images entwine, resonate, and evolve, they quietly shift our perception of the real world.

* About the exhibition series
This exhibition is the second in a series created in collaboration with Hasegawa Curation Lab, led by Yuko Hasegawa. The project champions young curators poised to lead the next generation, and this second edition is curated by Atsuhiro Miyake, co-representative of the curatorial collective HB.

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Yuko Hasegawa
Curator. Visiting Professor at Graduate School of Management, Kyoto University, in “Curatorial Theory and Practice”; Program Director of Art & Design at the International House of Japan; Visiting Professor at the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature; and Professor Emeritus at Tokyo University of the Arts. Former Director of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa.

She has been honored with the Commissioner for Cultural Affairs Award (2020), the Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France, 2015), the Order of Cultural Merit (Brazil, 2017), and the Officier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France, 2024). Hasegawa has curated numerous biennales in Istanbul (2001), Shanghai (2002), São Paulo (2010), Sharjah (2013), Moscow (2017), and Thailand (2021), and international exhibitions including Japanorama: A New Vision on Art Since 1970 at the Centre Pompidou-Metz (2017), and Fukami: A Plunge into Japanese Aesthetics in Paris (2018).

Her publications include Art and New Ecology: Anthropocene as Dithering Time (Ibun-sha, 2022); Japanorama: Un Archipel en Perpétuel Changement (Centre Pompidou-Metz Éditions, 2017); and Performativity in the Work of Female Japanese Artists in the 1950s–1960s and the 1990s (Modern Women: Women Artists at The Museum of Modern Art, MoMA, 2010).

CURATOR
Atsuhiro Miyake
Co-representative, Curatorial Collective “HB.“

Born in 1994 in Gifu Prefecture and currently based in Kyoto Prefecture.
Completed a Master’s degree at the Graduate School of Global Arts, Department of Arts Studies and Curatorial Practices, Tokyo University of the Arts, in 2019. While still in graduate school, co-founded the curatorial collective “HB.” with curator Yuu Takagi. After graduation, served as a teaching and research assistant at the same graduate school and as a curator at the Koganecho Area Management Center, before worked as a curator at Shiga Museum of Art from April 2022 to March 2025. In April 2025, became an independent curator. He explores the nature of exhibitions as spatial experiences.

His major curatorial exhibitions include House of Shiga (Shiga Museum of Art, Shiga, 2024), Stones and Plants (Shiga Museum of Art, Shiga, 2022), and À la fin du Cher Paysage (The 5th Floor, Tokyo, 2021). He also served as a coordinator for the Forest Festival of the Arts Okayama (Okayama 2024), and as a curatorial assistant for SharjapanⅡ Inter-Resonance: Inter-Organics (Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE, 2020) and Intimate Distance (Montpellier Contemporain, Montpellier, 2019).

His main publications include Tuning in to the Forest: Forest Festival of the Arts Okayama Clear-skies Country 2024 Official Catalogue (PURPLE LLC).

ARTISTS

Sofia Crespo

Photo: Filipa Aurélio

Born in Argentina; based in Lisbon, Portugal

Artist Sofia Crespo explores the symbiotic relationship between technology and organic life to challenge the notion that digital systems are distinct from their natural origins. Through her practice, she examines how AI mechanisms can simulate and evolve from biological forms, drawing compelling parallels between machine-generated imagery and human creativity.

Projects including Neural Zoo (2018–2020) and Artificial Natural History (2020–2023), present speculative ecosystems and artificial life forms that prompt the viewer to reconsider the boundaries between the digital and the natural worlds.

In 2024, Casa Batlló—the UNESCO World Heritage Site designed by Antoni Gaudí in the centre of Barcelona—invited Crespo to create a projection that mapped and animated the building’s façade. The artist harnessed artificial neural networks and trained algorithms to analyse the materials and phenomena of the building, before prompting them to interact with a 3D model of the façade. Titled Structures of Being, the spectacular projection presents nature as an evolutionary process of infinite creativity.

In recognition of her pioneering practice, in 2025, Crespo was awarded ‘Artist of the Year’ alongside Anna Ridler by the ABS Digital Art Prize. Beyond her artistic practice, Crespo has lectured at institutions including Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Oxford Artificial Intelligence Society, sharing insights into the evolving role of artists working with machine learning techniques.

Entangled Others

Photo: Klemen Skočir

Entangled Others is an experimental artist duo comprised of Feileacan Kirkbride McCormick and Sofia Crespo. Their collaborative practice delves into the intricate web of relationships between the more-than-human world and its interaction with human technologies.

The artist duo is inspired by the concept of entanglement—a complex state where no single entity exists in isolation, and every action, interaction, and expression resonates through a multitude of interconnected beings.

Together, McCormick and Crespo explore the uncanny space that lies between human and non-human worlds. Their art foregrounds a need to recognise and nurture the diversity and interconnectedness that define this shared environment.

Through their practice, the two artists question notions of bias in technology and the representation of natural species. They propose a return to a biological model of computation and explore concepts of entanglement across various species and ecosystems. The duo invites viewers to reconsider the boundaries between man and machine, encouraging a deeper appreciation for the intricate tapestry of life that sustains us all.

Entangled Others has exhibited across the world; at Toledo Museum of Art (Ohio, USA), Victoria and Albert Museum (London, UK), NeueHouse LA (Los Angeles, USA), MIT (Massachusetts, USA), Re:Humanism (Rome, Italy), Oxford University (Oxford, UK), UNESCO HQ (Paris, France), Goldsmiths University (London, UK), and Times Square Midnight Moment (New York, USA).
 
Their work also resides in private and public collections; in the Buffalo AKG Art Museum (New York, USA), Onassis Foundation (Vaduz, Liechtenstein), Colección SOLO (Madrid, Spain), among many others.