Detumescence

Detumescence is a vanitas installation consisting of works from Soft Computing (a sculpture series of hardware plushies), real technologies, flowers, fruit and a GIF.  The piece was made during lockdown and in response to personal and global grief experienced remotely through technology and the screen. As a re-staging of a classic memento mori tableau, it has been updated to include technologies at different ‘life’ stages: functional, obsolete, and reimagined as plushies. At a moment when nearly all human interaction and life was collapsing onto technology – even funerals – Detumescence acts as a memorial to lives lost.

Faith Holland

Faith Holland is an artist whose multimedia practice focuses on gender, intimacy and technology. In works that exaggerate our physical and embodied relationships to technologies, Holland uses equal measures of humour and tenderness in sculpture, performance, video, animated GIFs and net.art works.

Her works have been exhibited at institutions and galleries including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; The Hole, New York, NY; the TRANSFER Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO; Human Resources Los Angeles (HRLA), Los Angeles, CA; NRW-Forum Düsseldorf, Germany; Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen, Denmark; and DAM Projects, Berlin, Germany, among many others.

Her work has been written about in Art in America, Artforum, Elephant, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Hyperallergic, and The Observer, among many others. She has received grants from the New York State Council of the Arts (NYSCA) and Harvestworks, among others.

Faith Holland lives and works in New York, NY.