The show’s title is taken from Book 6 of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. The phrase sets the stage of the myth of Latona and the Lycian peasants—a story that is catalyzed by the desire to drink clean water.

In this era of AI and technological processes, we are confronted with questions of transcendence and what it means to be human. Screens and voids become the new objects we venerate—our daily icons through which we project our desires, stimulate imagination, and seek encounters with an “other”.

We are living a hybridized existence whether we consent to it or not.

This exhibition aims to create a reflective pool for current ideologies of transhumanism and posthumanism within the cult of technological progress. Each of these artists engage the conversation of hybrid transformation, Asian futurism, and collective memory through considering questions of ambient labor, digital vernacular, and techniques of aggregate assemblies.

Transcendence is a human longing—but it is not always a humane one.

And the myth ends with the goddess turning men into frogs.

- Michelle Chun