Gábor Fülöp - Biobot

Gábor Fülöp's work focuses primarily on a unique reinterpretation of traditional sculptural techniques. At the forefront of his interests is the relationship of living organisms to each other and their environment, and more recently, his focus has shifted towards the increasingly prominent interdisciplinary fields of artificial life, artificial intelligence, computational biology and synthetic biology. 
 

The human body is the main subject of his sculpture, whose specificities, identity, material and formal qualities are rethought in his latest sculptures in relation to the natural world and artificial life. His most recent sculptures are armoured Amazons with avatar bodies covered with a network of hexagonal plates that give the impression of a coppery shimmering sensory membrane, or scales of corten steel that simulate protection. The postures of these figures, frozen in time, evoke the movements of ancient Greek sculptures, combining the legacy of archaic human culture with the virtuality of artificial life. The biobot, evoked in the exhibition's title, is a type of robot inspired by cyborgs and a hybrid machine with both muscles and nerves.