EMMA PAPWORTH




A_0125 Towards a New Symbiosis
Hemispheres
Rising to Float
Tablets i-Vii
Modern Relics
Templates from yesterday
At First We Built With Stone
Future Artefacts
Asphalt Desert
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    A_0125 Towards a New Symbiosis
    Goldsmiths Degree Show, London
    17th July  - 22nd July 2025





    Install shot: A_0125 Towards a New Symbiosis
    MDF, hydroponic growth systems, LED lights, Fittonia Plants, jesmonite, resin
    2025


    A-0125: Interface II, jesmonite, 2025



    Install shot: Indoor plant growing systems, Fittonia plants, cast jesmonite relief, 2025



    Install shot: Indoor plant growing systems, Fittonia plants



    A_0125.1: Interface, jesmonite, 2025









    Symbiosis version-01, UV print on aluminium, 2025







    A0125: Towards a New Symbiosis unfolds as a speculative eco-corporation, asking what it means to build futures where humans, technology and the natural world might evolve to become mutually symbiotic. Part installation, part prototype, the work sits between corporate showroom and science-fiction set, drawing viewers into an environment that is at once sleek and seductive, yet charged with the subtle tension between utopic aspiration and artifice.

    In an era shaped by accelerating AI, climate emergency and shifting social infrastructures, Papworth situates her work within the framework of the Symbiocene, an epoch imagined beyond the Anthropocene, in which entanglement, interdependence and co-creation displace extractive models of “progress.” In doing so the work becomes less a utopia than a rehearsal: a space where futures can be tested, inhabited and felt.

    At its centre is a pod-like form, where logos, hydroponic growth systems and a meditative video environment combine to evoke the simultaneous familiarity of the corporate showroom and the strangeness of a posthuman sanctuary. Papworth’s installation does not describe the future so much as invite us into its architecture, offering a glimpse of a future both desirable and unsettling; a vision that mirrors our present aspirations while asking what forms of progress we are truly willing to imagine.