" My recent artworks are grounded by many questions I have asked myself in the last few years. How is the definition of the human changing? What constitutes life now.  What differentiates plant and animal, human and non-human? What are our responsibilities towards the planet, other people, and other life forms? And what would life look like without us?  The relationship between individuals and technologies; the connection between bodies and the Earth.

In my recent work I have imagined a post-human condition that challenges the modern Western vision of the human being − and especially the presumed universal ideal of the white, male “Man of Reason” − as fixed centre of the universe and measure of all things. 

Today, the world seems dramatically split between technological optimism − which promises that the human body can be endlessly perfected through science − and the dread of a complete takeover by machines via automation and artificial intelligence. This rift has widened during the Covid-19 pandemic, which has forced us even further apart and caged much of human interaction behind the screens of electronic devices.

The pressure of technology, the heightening of social tensions, the outbreak of the pandemic, and the looming threat of environmental disaster remind us every day that as mortal bodies, we are neither invincible nor self-sufficient, but rather part of a symbiotic web of interdependencies that bind us to each other, to other species, and to the planet as a whole."

 

SERJ SABET 

British Visual Artist 

BA (Hons) Fine Art University of Sunderland 2006

Northern Echo Prize for Fine Art 2006