EXHIBITION: LINES OF FLIGHT
BLEUR Gallery & Studios is pleased to present Lines of Flight, a group exhibition curated by Phenotypica Art & Science (Neus Torres Tamarit and Ben Murray), bringing together seven artists working at the intersection of art, science and technology. The exhibition opens with a private view on 28 January 2026 and runs until 11 February 2026.
Lines of Flight traces imagined alternative paths through a world shaped by rapid technological, ecological and social change. The concept, introduced by philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, describes moments of escape, transformation and becoming rather than a fixed theory.
The featured artworks break away from rigid structures, hierarchies and inherited ways of thinking, engaging with post-humanist perspectives. They offer ways of sensing, noticing and navigating complexity to challenge assumptions about what it means to be human. Some shift our perspective away from anthropocentric viewpoints, while others explore the deep entanglement between people, technology and the systems we create. Together, they reflect on the growing intimacy between humans and technology, and the uncertainties that arise as new forms of intelligence reshape ideas of identity, agency and control.
Across sculpture, installation, painting, moving image and digital media, the exhibition invites viewers to step outside fixed distinctions between the human and non-human, the organic and artificial, the natural and the technological. They offer clues, intuitions and points of departure through which visitors may find their own line of flight: a way of moving, thinking and becoming within a rapidly changing landscape.
Featured Artists
Adam Peacock examines how biotechnology, algorithmic systems, and platform economies shape identity and behaviour. Featuring a new artwork, Resisting Optimisation, this series forms part of Peacock’s ESRC-supported PhD research in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, which investigates AI-integrated digital systems and the development of tools for navigating AI-integrated subjectivity.
Karen Tang works with cyanobacteria, ancient photosynthesising microorganisms that fundamentally shape Earth's biosphere, as living sculptural partners. Presenting new work developed through her PhD research at Central Saint Martins' Living Systems Lab, the Magnetic Combo sculptures allude to high-modernist sculpture but serve as supports for microbial life, disrupting anthropocentric hierarchies and expanding what we perceive as sculptural material. Tang is represented by l'étrangère gallery.
Katya Sykes explores fungal-human relationships through sculpture and performance, engaging with mycelium to investigate decentralised processes of transformation across ecological, sociological, and deep-time contexts. Presenting new work, Sykes foregrounds other-than-human intelligences while calling into question human exceptionalism, extractive logics, and ideologies of control.
Louise Beer examines how technology both connects us to, and fractures us from, ways of knowing and understanding the universe. With her collaborator John Hooper, as Pale Blue Dot Collective, they present Last Verse, a dual-screen film depicting two temporalities: the perspective of a non-human animal and a cosmic time frame. Are we cosmically insignificant, or cosmically significant? Beer is currently Artist in Residence at the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge.
Phenotypica (Neus Torres Tamarit & Ben Murray) presents two bodies of work: Gender A–Gender B, part of the Agonism/Antagonism project done in response to Tamarit’s year long residency at University College London’s Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, which de-anthropomorphises our understanding of sex, mutation, and genetic evolution, and The Chaos of Raw Unknowing, an artwork commissioned by The National Gallery X, UKRI-TAS, and Ali Hossaini, exploring trust in artificial intelligence and the dangers of assuming that computer vision systems see and understand as humans do.
Sarah Gilbert addresses notions of control through technology and the problem of proletarianisation emanating from technics, heavily incorporating digital tools within her painting practice. Presenting new work, her fragmented figures emerge as empty shells: avatars ever becoming rather than fixed identities. Through distortion and rupture, bodies under pressure attempt to escape themselves, bearing the weight of invisible forces. Gilbert draws on Stiegler's concept of psychopower to explore the fragility of identity in an age dominated by marketing, labour and self-representation.
Exhibition: Lines of Flight
Dates: 29 January – 11 February 2026
Private View: 28 January 2026, 6pm – 9pm
Venue: BLEUR Gallery & Studios, 62–64 Baker Street, London W1U 7DF
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday: 10am – 6pm, Saturday: 11am – 4pm, Sunday by appointment
Admission: Free
About the Curators
Phenotypica Art & Science is an initiative founded by artist Neus Torres Tamarit and computer scientist Ben Murray in 2016 to create evocative artworks and immersive experiences at the intersection of art, science and technology. With a strong focus on public engagement, they have collaborated with and received commissions from institutions including The Royal Society, Tate Modern, University College London, Francis Crick Institute, Science Museum, National Gallery X and UKRI-TAS.
Neus Torres Tamarit is an internationally exhibited multimedia artist and curator, a member of the Royal Society of Sculptors, and graduate of MA Art and Science at Central Saint Martins. Ben Murray is a Senior Research Associate and Ph.D. Candidate at King's College London, researching artificial intelligence for medical imaging, and creative software director at Phenotypica.
About Bleur Gallery & Studios
Born in 2019 in South London, Bleur is the first independent visual art label championing emerging voices to challenge the status quo. Led by entrepreneur Aurelia Islimye and artist Ana Aguirre, Bleur combines the traditional model of an art gallery with a strong avant-garde advocacy voice.
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BLEUR gallery & studios is part of Westminster City Council’s Meanwhile On initiative, which provides innovative projects with access to high-profile vacant spaces. The programme offers significant business rate relief and support from project delivery partner Someday Studios. Rent-free occupancy made possible by The Portman Estate.