Genetic Jenga as a Zero-Sum Game, 2017

Pauline Batista is a multimedia artist based in London. Rooted in the body, her work and research seek to expand its borders in order to imagine other possibilities outside of our current paradigms. Examining the space between technology, intimacy, and the medical, she creates networks that the viewers are invited to decode through installations encompassing elements of photography, sculpture, and sound frequencies. Among solo and group shows, she exhibited at: POLI/GRAFICA of Latin American and Caribbean Art (San Juan, PR), Tropigalpão (Rio de Janeiro, BR), Artissima (Turin, IT), Kupfer (London, UK), Museo Civico G. Fattori (Livorno, IT), GALLLERIAPIÙ (Bologna, IT), Houston Center for Photography (Houston, USA), ATP Gallery (London, UK), CADAF Digital Art Fair (New York, USA) and ARCO E-XHIBITIONS. She is also the recipient of Arts Council England Developing Your Creative Practice Grant, which has allowed for expanding her practice in new directions and mediums.

There’s a quiet tension that builds the longer you stand with Genetic Jenga as a Zero Sum Game. It’s not just about structure, it’s about risk. Pauline Batista turns the language of science and systems into something bodily and unstable. The Perspex gleams like data made physical, but the metal wires whisper fragility. This isn’t a monument, it’s a question: what are we balancing, and who bears the weight when something shifts? It feels like holding your breath in a system that was never designed to be fair.

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