Mark Dion, Henrik Håkansson, Mariko Mori, Sven Påhlsson, Marianna Uutinen / (naturally artificial:)

"The exhibition also speaks, I believe, about the necessity of rethinking our present day relationship with nature. There is an urgent need to overcome age-old dualisms of body/mind, nature/culture, matter/spirit, and neither technological euphoria nor apocalyptic doom need be the only alternatives. "Naturally Artifical" posits itself in relation to a situation where we increasingly experience a blending of nature and culture, technology and life, and where the synthetic has become a second nature. Technology transforms nature into culture at a speed difficult to monitor or even comprehend. In areas such as biological technology and genetic engineering, in computer technology, in futuristic visions of cyborgs and artificial life, and not least in terms of a growing environmental crisis, we are witnessing how it is no longer possible to easily distinguish between something supposedly purely natural and the artificial or man-made. This fundamental and complex turn in man's relationship to nature and the natural is also increasingly being reflected in contemporary art." from the essay by Jon-Ove Steihaug