Evoking classroom doodles sneakily penned while daydreaming as a young pupil, XENO BIOTA, which is literally defined as ‘a substance that is foreign to the body or to an ecological system’, presents fantastical sci-fi factory-scapes in ink on paper constructed from the artist’s vivid imagination. Reminiscent of Fritz Lang’s 1920s visionary film Metropolis, these methodically built flat illustrations pulsate and whir with futuristic spacecraft and machinery. These complex mechanised domains have spacesuit technicians scurrying around like a nest of worker ants. Aside from romanticising on the beauty of these technologically domains, there are more sinister indicators vibrating below the core. Billowing with gas and smoke, cracks appear in structural foundations while all-powerful CEOs lounge around counting profits. In the present climate of GMOs, stem cell research, and human cloning, controversy surrounds the morality of scientific advancement, and the catastrophic implications that could ultimately be unleashed by the few upon the natural world and the whole of humanity.
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