The Cured

Radiator Gallery is thrilled to announce The Cured, a group show featuring 5 artists whose works delineate the coherent relationship between social politics and the ethics of biological studies situated in a postmodern context, in the hope of raising the questions on the dynamic and ambiguous nature of being human.

As classic philosophy fades away, said Heidegger, cybernetics becomes a philosophy for the twentieth century. Heidegger claimed that, full-blown technicism dissolves even objectivity, turning beings into "standing reserve" in the service of the will to power. Its application on biology is apparent: medical systems were established in order to control. From the notorious lobotomy to your everyday orthodontic braces, state-funded medical researches have turned into either propaganda or profitable commodities. The entire society expects to be cured, corrected, and optimized.

In fact, the ethical concerns in biological researches have always been controversial: to which extend do we allow technology to…