Bodies lie splintered, shattered, in pieces on the floor in Geumhyung Jeong's installation at the ICA. Skeletal appendages - ribs, femurs, spines and skulls - are abandoned on the concrete, wires and motors and batteries left half connected to tibias and hips. It's not about the robots, or the technology, it's about the failure. It's about Jeong trying to build a functional body - one that moves and dances and interacts - but constantly coming up short.
You know a gallery is absolutely winging it when they say their new show is an attempt 'to fold or stretch time' and 'consider new conceptions of the "historical"' while also being about climate change, clairvoyance and the 'plasticity' of the body. This exhibition is somehow about all those topics and curated by Denmark-based theorist Lars Bang Larsen. It's a great exercise in total nonsense.
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