13.01.20 - 28.06.20
GENDERS: SHAPING AND BREAKING THE BINARY

GENDERS presented a playful and kaleidoscopic view of genders and its relationship with science, as well as factors like class, culture, race, age and sexuality. The season aimed to open conversation through personal perspectives on and beyond the female and male ‘binaries’. Drawing on the latest research from King’s College London, the season examined ideas of gender in contemporary society.

The exhibition featured artworks, scientific research and collaborative projects, and invited audiences to interact with and speculate upon the factors that shape our behaviour and our understanding of genders. Science Gallery London aims to offer a safe space to discuss, debate and connect with others on this most personal of subjects.

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The Exchange: Repro-Tech

How do ideas about gender replicate and change?

IN≠BODY:EXO/REAL(I)T.Y #aevtardeprogram

Cibelle Cavalli Bastos’ new installation emerges from a community of non-binary artists and developers who build and share filters on Instagram.

Challenging Structures

In role-playing games, players pursue goals in a fictional setting whilst interacting with each other in character…

Grace in the Garms

Binding is a method of flattening the chest practiced by some trans people in order to better align their body with their sense of self.

Work Out Play Charter

Work Out is an ongoing research project exploring consent, masculinity and male privilege led by artist Phoebe Davies and sex educator Gareth Esson.

UNBORN0X9

UNBORN0X9 is an art installation and performance questioning the development of foetuses in artificial wombs outside of the body (ectogenesis) and the cyborg future of parenting.

Ties That Bind

Sahhar's drawings tell the story of a straight couple working in the corporate world…

Cosmic Ass

Cosmic Ass celebrates twerking, a danceform that originates in the black ‘bounce’ scene of 1980s New Orleans.

Once you care, you're future

This artwork questions society's tendency to use the figure of the child to represent “the future” and the problems of this for those who choose not to reproduce or cannot reproduce.

Doing Lucy

In the 1970s, archaeologists discovered a set of fossilised bone fragments comprising 40% of the skeleton of a 3.2 million year-old primate

nnother

This new sound work challenges ideas about care, bonding, and the process of gestation.

WE ARE HERE BECAUSE OF THOSE THAT ARE NOT

"I don't want to lose any more trans people”…

'on being allergic to onions'... we read Susan Leigh Star

In this new video work, the artist and drag kings King Frankie Sinatra, Sigi Moonlight and HP Loveshaft perform a translation of American sociologist Susan Leigh Star’s (1954-2010) contribution to a feminist understanding of science and technology.

Skin Flick

In Skin Flick (Invasive Species) we see bodies absorbing and interacting with chemicals such as beauty products, drugs, supplements and organic matter.

Rekombinan (Recombinant Commons)

In 2019 artist Mary Maggic spent time with a community on the banks of the Kali Code river in Yogyakarta, Indonesia…

Uproot, new roots

In this new series of films, Sadé Mica poses in peaceful landscapes in the North of England.

Selected works by Rotimi Fani-Kayode

These six works by Rotimi Fani-Kayode provide a reference point for how understandings of gender change across time and cultures.

Words That Stick

Science Gallery London’s Young Leaders have chosen a selection of words that can express our relationships to gender.