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Vela Projects is a fine art gallery based in a 19th century building, presenting a programme that resonates with the global cultural landscape and champions the development of influential and lasting artistic careers.
Vela Projects is proud to present ‘Our Calves Demand a Wolf’ Alexis Schofield’s third solo exhibition and his first with the gallery.
In this exhibition, Schofield focuses on Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a particularly fascinating synecdoche of the age-old Promethean error. Its developers promise that it will provide cheap, risk-free labour, optimise decision-making, and offer unbiased solutions to the world’s problems. In practice, however, a number of unforeseen consequences have arisen that have fostered a culture of distrust around the new technology. As AI becomes more proficient in analysing and mimicking human-like behaviour, the sense that we don’t know whom or what to trust compounds.
‘Our Calves Demand a Wolf’ observes an aesthetic world that is both humanist and inhuman. Not just an image of apocalypse, but an apocalypse of images, as seen through an eye that is, uncannily, both man and machine.
The exhibition is on display from 25 October to 7 November 2024.
Theo Potgieter (@theokillerwhale_music) is a South African artist whose work explores consciousness and spirituality through a dynamic fusion of music, visual art, and poetry. With a practice rooted in elevating human consciousness, Theo’s art invites deep introspection, encouraging viewers to reflect on the profound questions and experiences that shape their existence. His current work is dedicated to blending poetry and music with his visual art to create a multidimensional experience that blurs traditional boundaries, inspiring a holistic contemplation of life’s mysteries and the self.