Jasmine Pradissitto

“Pradissitto offers up a fractured visual plane upon which pictorial traditions and art theory meet with Quantum theory and scientific methods. She welcomes us to the Quantum Age with an astoundingly proficient artistry that leaves one embodied, empowered and present in a world that will oft leave us unanchored and lost. Where subject meets light meets object, so too does Art meet Science.”

 —— Richard Hore-Curator

Statement

'The real problem of humanity is we have paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall.' E.O. Wilson

We can only live for 3 minutes without air...
Without a drastic global change in the next 10 years, the achievements we have enjoyed through our inventiveness, will become futile if we can no longer sustain the most basic of our human needs. Art can help to not simply change our perspectives, but also to provide a visual language that connects communities.


From ‘holograms you can touch’ in new and discarded plastics, to sculptures in nitrogen dioxide (NOX) absorbing ceramic geopolymers, I bring together my background as physicist, artist, public speaker and innovator to create work and partnerships that address the diminishing air quality on our burgeoning planet. It is the most pressing of issues on an increasingly Anthropocene world slowly being reshaped by the things we consume and then disregard.
Through my work, I seek to find an ethical framework for our progress by remembering the things that are best about being human; empathy and compassion for each other, our planet home and the fragile biological web of life, of which we are only a small part.


 THE ETHICS OF PROGRESS

Progress is seductive but without empathy, compassion and a framework for ethical decisions, ‘progress’ becomes a separate entity; enslaving rather than liberating and this is where my work finds its inspiration- the possibility of a Utopian future in which our Natural World is once more seen as a collective home and all our fellow inhabitants as equal occupants. I am seeking a visual that speaks of a liberating version of Huxley’s prophetic ‘Brave New World’. In this futuristic Utopia, liberated by AI from the shackles of jobs created by The Industrial Revolution, we may at last, be free to develop our brain-computer minds in our bio-engineered bodies, as we take a walk through a natural world, which was perfectly engineered to start with and has been allowed, once again to find its ecological balance.
PSYCHE FOR A 21ST CENTURY
2019 Sculpture in new and discarded plastics, dichroic and metal

PLASTIC PLANET
Plastic Planet 2017 in discarded plastics, filters

TO PIN A BUTTERFLY
To Pin a Butterfly 2018 In new and discarded plastics, light,filters and perspex.

DO MACHINES DREAM OF ELECTRIC GODS?
2018 A sculpture in plastics and metal.

Welcome to Jasmine's homepage to find more artworks:

https://www.pradissitto.com/gallery-menu/ethics-progress


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