John Walter CAPSID, 2018 - 2019
John Walter CAPSID, 2018 - 2019 Exhibition specifications This installation consists of seventeen individual works made up of prints and drawings, two sculptures and two videos.
John Walter’s project CAPSID (2018-2019) incorporates 250 artworks, and was the result of a collaboration between the artist and molecular virologist Professor Greg Towers of University College London. The project addresses a crisis of representation surrounding viruses
All seventeen works can be displayed together as one installation or the works can be displayed in various iterations depending on the specifications of the space.
such as HIV by bringing new scientific knowledge about
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and passed on, throughout time.
Installation images of the works can be viewed on the artist’s website: johnwalter.net/capsid/ exhibition/
viral capsids to the attention of the wider public, whilst also using the capsids as an analogy for thinking about cultural transmission and how artforms are transmitted,
The project uses imagery and narratives associated with research around capsids to create an immersive installation featuring drawings, paintings, prints, sculptures, costumes and film with an emphasis on privileging the handmade, the awkward and the asymmetrical, an aesthetic the artist describes as ‘shonky’.
CAPSID builds on Walter’s previous projects in which he sought to update the discussion around HIV. As the artist says: ‘Virology has a lot to teach us about how ideas and cultural forms are spread, how they inveigle themselves into existence and how they mutate in order to survive.’
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