A declaration of unrequited love, the artwork combines melodic voice recordings, CGI animation, and ceroplastic—an eighteenth-century technique for casting anatomical wax models from dissected bodies. In the film, a chilling echo of the porn industry’s production of silicone bodies for automated use is conflated with the figure of the Anatomical Venus, who is cut open to eroticize the function of the reproductive and sexual organs.
Grumpy will be launched at the opening event of the Hyper Functional, Ultra Heathly programme on 28 January and will then be available to watch on Channel, Somerset House’s online space for art, ideas and the artistic process.
