Micheline Robinson
Uncharted territory (Mothers) $5,800 Status: Available - upcoming exhibition
Bio Merge (Mothers) $5,800 Status: Available - upcoming exhibition
Roots of awareness (Mothers) $5,800 Status: Available - upcoming exhibition
Molten Rêverie (Mothers) $TBA Status: Available - upcoming exhibition
It was a heavy load to carry (Mothers) $5,800 Status: Available - upcoming exhibition
Birth of an uncertain future (Mothers) $5,800 Status: Available - upcoming exhibition
La penseuse (Morphs) $6,800 framed Status: Available - upcoming exhibition
Reaching for touch and connection (Morphs) $TBA Status: Available - upcoming exhibition
Making sense of it (Morphs) $TBA Status: Available - upcoming exhibition
Into the future (Morphs) $TBA Status: Available - upcoming exhibition
Soul Alloy (Specimens) $TBA Status: Available - upcoming exhibition
The face that remained while everything around us shifts (Specimens) $TBA Status: Available - upcoming exhibition
What has become of you Gingerbread man? (Specimens) $TBA Status: Available - upcoming exhibition
Loving touch (Specimens) $TBA Status: Available - upcoming exhibition
Morphy Buddy (Specimens) $TBA Status: Available - upcoming exhibition
Consciousnessnessness (or Consciousness in Flux -Specimens) $TBA Status: Available - upcoming exhibition
We are pleased to invite you to meet Micheline at the opening of:
THRESHOLD BEINGS
An Organoid Intelligence Trilogy
Micheline Robinson
Opening Thursday 27th August 5-7pm
rsvp:ron@exhibitionsgallery.co.nz
Threshold Beings
An Organoid Intelligence Trilogy by Micheline Robinson
Threshold Beings is an exhibition dedicated to organoid intelligence (OI), the emerging field of biological computing that uses lab-grown brain organoids. Structured as a trilogy, it examines embodiment, sentience and the status of physical touch in an era of AI systems, robotics and human-machine hybrids.
At its core, the exhibition asks: as organoid intelligence and AI systems advance, and as robots begin to replace humans in care homes and, even more recently, in classrooms, will we still remember the importance of touch? The warmth of skin? The depth of embodied experience?
If consciousness is rooted in our biological being and DNA, what existential questions confront hybrids that merge silicon with living neural tissue? These hand-painted works on metal, created without external references, present Micheline Robinson’s vision of a hybrid world in touch with its consciousness.
The exhibition unfolds as a story, a narrative across three interconnected bodies of work.
Mothers
Drawing from the artist’s experience as a mother, these metallic forms fuse industrial materiality with a visceral sense of sentience. They function as protective architectures, wombs, holding onto the persistence of physical presence against systems that increasingly replace physical contact with mediated or simulated forms of contact.
Morphs
Translucent, layered biomorphic sculptures in reds, purples and pinks. Visceral and unstable, they present flesh as disjointed parts trying to realign into something recognisable.
Are they foetuses? Are they morphing?
Specimens
Works sealed within clear casings, like laboratory specimens, appear disturbingly alive. Contained yet active, these forms suggest a new kind of material intelligence. They seem to question, to yearn.
The exhibition stages the unresolved questions that surround our increasingly technological relationship to the body, as AI and robotic systems mediate ever more of human contact.
What becomes of our humanity?