Description:
Art&Science at the Hub
Can you imagine self-degradation as a survival mechanism? That sounds like a pretty counterintuitive idea, right? However, this is exactly what happens in our cells under stressful conditions. Stress induces autophagy, a basic and essential mechanism of cell physiology through which cells exposed to stress stimuli (such as fasting) try to preserve themselves through a self-eating process. There is beauty in this dialectical contradiction, as it reflects a self-regulatory balance of life that can be extrapolated to other levels of biological organization, from single cells to entire ecosystems. Thus, this exhibition talks about the resilience of biological material in stressful situations. It proposes a visual journey from a macroscopic level of organization (entire organisms) toward the interior of a single cell, unveiling the infinite mysteries concealed within it. Even though they have very valuable aesthetic features, intracellular landscapes are not a common topic in art. Correcting this is the main aim of this exhibition. Both Ayelen Valko and Dorotea Fracchiolla are scientists–as well as artists–focused on autophagy research. Thus, through their artwork, they illustrate this mechanism from different points of view and magnification levels.
List of artworks
- Autolysosome: exploration of textures 1
- Atg9 vesicle
- Autolysosome: exploration of textures 2
- Ubiquitinated cargo
- Autophagy 4
- Autophagy in the yeast cell
- Micro-ER-phagy 1
- Pop art cargo
- Micro-ER-phagy 2
- Autophagosome biogenesis
- Preview: anthropo-phagy
- Aggrephagy
- Autophagy 1
- A PI3K-WIPI2 feedback loop activates LC3 lipidation
- Autophagy 2
- The autophagy cascade
- Autophagy in fat body cells
- Recycling
- Imaginary Autolysosome
- Pre-synaptic autophagy
- Parallelism
- Cargo receptors
- Larvae
- Cargo receptors
- Salivary Gland
- Coronavirus goes on a journey
- Malpighian tubules
- Cargo receptors across kingdoms
- Felis silvestris catus
- Regulatory Megacomplex
- Drosophila life cycle
- Mitobrain
- Composition: lymph gland
- Step-by-step PDK1 activation
- Longhorn beetle (Cerambycidae)
- Neurogenesis
- Atompunk Biochemistry
- Lab life
- N-glycosylation
- Kinase activation in cells
- Composition: imaginary autolysosome
- Evophagy
- S. pombe mutant
- Organoids
- H. sapiens
- Relief valves on endosomes
- Microinjection
- Neurons in a dish
- Skull
- Larva with Lymph Gland
- Lymph Gland
- Equilibrium
Some artworks were framed by:
- Rocco Sienese (C.so Piave 64, 70037 Ruvo di Puglia)
- Annamaria Sparapano (Via M. Caputi 60/62, 70037 Ruvo di Puglia)
- Fatelli Michele (Via M.R. Imbriani 18, 70037 Ruvo di Puglia)
Artists:
Ayelen Valko, Dorotea Fracchiolla
Exhibition:
AUTOPHAGIC LANDSCAPES: ON THE PARADOX OF SURVIVAL THROUGH SELF-DEGRADATION
Location
Complexity Science Hub,
Vienna
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