Shin Gallery opens an exhibition of Brazilian artist Otavio Schipper
(Artdaily.org)

Shin Gallery is presenting an exhibition of Brazilian artist Otavio Schipper (b.1979). His works translate scientific research and concepts into diverse art forms that lead to a beautiful and impressive complexity between art and science. The central piece of the exhibition is the video work GOLEM, produced during Schipper’s stay at the Max Planck Research Center’s Artist-in-Residence program, in collaboration with New York City based musician and composer Sergio Krakowski (Brazil, b.1979). A “Golem” is a figure from Jewish folklore, an animated anthropomorphic being that is magically created entirely from inanimate matter (specifically clay or mud). By reinterpreting the myth through a combination of scientific footage of microscopic organisms, bacteria and molecules, Schipper draws comparisons between these tiny, fungible building blocks of life and matter and the mythology of the Golem. Faint echoes of ze