Flowers for Future Suns

Flowers for Future Suns by Felix Seymour investigates the similarities between the internal processes of machines and plants. As both operate on a cause-and-effect response to external stimuli, Seymour suggests our exponential technological advances may result in the increasingly intertwined relationship between human and machine. This exhibition offers an insight into our journey toward a transhumanist horizon.

Through clay and design software, Seymour manifests and conceptualises the collision between machine and flora and fauna (organic matter). Much of the produce grown and consumed by humans is no longer organic, touched in some way by artificial pesticides and fertilizers to increase productivity and longevity. Planted and harvested, washed and prepared, packaged and delivered – the mechanical process envelops botany, and we are left with the residual Frankensteinian flower.

Through this collection of sculptures, Seymour visualises the impacts of mechanisation thousands of years into the future. A fictional projection of a second wave of industrial revolution that meddles with the natural world, Flowers for Future Suns reflects the artist’sanxieties surrounding this imagined, yet uncomfortably close reality of controlled evolution. Seymour questions the moral and aesthetic implications of technological aggrandizing, inquiring into a future where the mechanisation of plants radically changes ontological understandings of the natural world.

Accompanying score by Ned Prevezer.