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Preview | Libby Heaney: Ent-er the Garden of Forking Paths

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Presenting the UK premiere of Ent- (Many Paths Version) (2022), Dr. Libby Heaney’s solo exhibition Ent-er the Garden of Forking Paths.

Join us for the UK premiere of Dr. Libby Heaney's solo exhibition Ent-er the Garden of Forking Paths, featuring the latest iteration of her Ent- series, Ent- (Many Paths Version) (2022). Dr. Heaney is the first artist to use quantum computing as a functioning artistic medium, and this exhibition unearths the magical computational and artistic potentialities of quantum mechanics.

Through experiential and visual languages shaped using quantum programming, Ent- prompts thought on determinism and the near-future of lived experience. Visitors are invited to move in a game scenario and experience quantum materiality on their own terms. The exhibition references Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights, considering duality and the undetermined.

This immersive exhibition was commissioned by LAS (Light Art Space) and first exhibited at Schering Stiftung, Berlin in 2022, and later at Calder and the 21st Century, Nahmad Contemporary, NYC. Come and experience the UK premiere of Ent- (Many Paths Version) and enter the Garden of Forking Paths.

About the Artist

Libby Heaney is an award winning Artist and quantum physicist, whose who has held solo exhibitions at venues including arebyte Gallery London and Light Art Space Berlin named by Weltkunst as one of the best exhibitions of March 2022 alongside Louise Bourgeois and Jenny Holzer.Heaney is considered to be the first artist to use quantum computing as a functioning artist medium and her notable quantum artwork Ent- has won the Lumen Prize and the Falling Walls Art-Science Prize, 2022.Other solo and group exhibitions and performances in 2022 include Calder and the 21st Century, Nahmad Contemporary, NYC; a month long public screening, Gwanghwamun Square, Seoul; Biomedia, ZKM, Karlsruhe; Quantum Hivemind, Serpentine, London; and CASCADE, Southbank Centre, London. Heaney was awarded the 2022 Mozilla Foundation Creative Media Award, has been the recipient of numerous Arts Council England grants and is in major private collections including Zabludowicz Collection, London. She is currently a resident artist of Somerset House Studios, London.Before retraining as an artist at Central St. Martins, London, Heaney completed a PhD in Quantum Information Science at the University of Leeds and led her own research at the University of Oxford, publishing around 20 papers on the topic of quantum entanglement. She won the HSBC and Institute of Physics, UK, Very Early Career Woman Physicist of the year in 2008.

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