CURRENT EXHIBITION:
Camilla Alberti, Ivy Chilelli, C-LAB (Laura Cinti & Howard Boland), Clarissa Falco, Wataru Iwata, Andrea Samory
H for Hybrid
Opening May 6th, 2025.
May 7th- June 20th
WIZARD LAB is pleased to present H for Hybrid, featuring works by Camilla Alberti, Ivy Chilelli, C-LAB (Laura Cinti & Howard Boland), Clarissa Falco, Wataru Iwata, and Andrea Samory.
The title of the show paraphrases the title of Orson Welles’ film F for Fake (1973), a hybrid itself, in which Welles blurs the boundaries between truth and fabrication, art and forgery, performance and identity. The film undermines traditional notions of truth, authorship, and artistic purity, where Welles himself takes on the role of narrator, magician, and trickster, adding another layer to this multifaceted exploration of selfhood and storytelling.
Biologically, a hybrid is defined as the offspring of two different species or the combination of distinct elements. But hybridity also has deep cultural, philosophical, and political implications—especially within posthumanist discourse, where it interrogates the entanglement of human and non-human, nature and technology, self and other.
Drawing on theoretical contributions by Donna Haraway, Lynn Margulis, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, and others, the participating artists explore hybridity as both a concept and a practice.