Preliminary Materials for a Neurogenesis of the Young-Girl is a project by Szilvia Bolla conceived and developed over the course of Bolla’s month-long residency at lower_cavity. Expanding on the artist’s central preoccupations with convergences of body, mind, affective labor, and psychopharmacology as constructed within neoliberal systems, the suite of works explores non-normative perceptions of temporality arising in subjects distorted by neuro-capitalism and necropolitics.
The works combine Bolla’s delicate, 3D-printed resin sculptures–themselves a beguiling hybrid of floral architectures and human viscera– with materials foraged from local antique fairs and surplus industrial components sourced from a nearby clean-technology startup.
Situated within in the ruined post-industrial architecture of lower_cavity’s project spaces, Bolla’s works operate in a modality of Gothic post-humanism, meditating on the ways metanarratives of capitalist production have informed gendered conceptions of physical and mental health from the 19th century to the present.