Damaris Athene

//slip is a series of wall-based works that traverse the boundary between painting and sculpture. //slip takes inspiration from the shape of water droplets while expanding upon Athene’s Fruiting_Bodies series that imagines a future hybrid body, exploring the entanglement of humans, animals, plants, fungi, the environment and technology. //slip explores the watery interconnection of all beings that Astrida Neimanis talks about in Bodies of water: posthuman feminist phenomenology.

Damaris Athene (b. 1992, UK) lives and works in London. Athene’s transdisciplinary practice explores the posthuman and how lived experience mediated through technology offers new ways of viewing the materiality and potential of the body. Her work inhabits liminal space, slipping between the real and unreal, and swimming through permeable boundaries between bodies, the organic and synthetic, the digital and physical, and 2D/3D space. Athene graduated from the Royal College of Arts with an MA in Ceramics and Glass and from City & Guilds with an MA in Fine Art.

Solo exhibitions include: All Trussed Up and Nowhere to Go, ] G A Z E [Art Space, Shrewsbury (2022); Cheer Up Love, Peterhouse, Cambridge (2019); I Shall Walk Softly There, Wigan S.T.E.A.M., Wigan (2018). Recent group exhibitions include: A Landscape of Chance, SLQS Gallery, UK (2024), In Loving Memory, Guts Gallery Project Space, London, UK (2024); Unveiling Abstractions, Hypha HQ, London, UK (2024); Robert Walters UK New Artist of the Year Award, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK (2023); Adjacent Colours, D Contemporary, London, UK (2023); Bodies, Gluttony and Me, Pictorum Gallery, London, UK (2023); current/s, MeetFrida at PHOTOPIA, Hamburg, Germany (2023); NOW Introducing, Studio West Gallery, London, UK (2022); BEYOND IMAGE, MeetFrida at Triennial Der Photographie, Hamburg, Germany (2022); A BODY: FIGURE AND FLESH, FLOOR_, Seoul, South Korea (2022); Our New World, ArtGirlRising