180 Studios presents a major new exhibition by digital art collective, Universal Everything at 180 The Strand, opening 12 October 2022.
In Universal Everything’s largest UK solo show to date, Lifeforms will see a collection of characterful and futuristic moving image artworks inhabit the vast subterranean spaces of 180 The Strand. Many of the artworks use generative technology to evolve and shift with time and interaction, meaning that no visitor will see the same show twice.
Drawing from the history of visual culture and futurists’ attempts to depict the body in motion, Universal Everything use cutting edge digital technology to create soulful digital life and explore a wide range of human behaviours, as well as the natural world – from evolution, parades, and the dynamics of crowds, to the diversity of nature.
Presented and commissioned by 180 Studios, the exhibition will bring together 14 individual ‘lifeforms’, that will exist in distinct spaces or ‘habitats’ created by Ab Rogers Design. Lifeforms also includes the world premiere of new Universal Everything artworks Primordial, Maison Autonome, and Into the Sun.
Universal Everything’s work was first shown at 180 Studios as part of LUX: New Wave of Contemporary Art in 2020 with a reworking of Transfiguration, which will be included in Lifeforms. The studio has also exhibited at cultural institutions including ZKM, the Barbican, the V&A, La Gaite Lyrique and Science Museum.
Lifeforms is presented and commissioned by 180 Studios.
Exhibition Design is by Ab Rogers Design.
Universal Everything: Lifeforms
180 The Strand, London, WC2R 1EA
12 October – 18 December 2022
11am – 7pm, Wednesday– Sunday
