Postmortem Life

26 Nov – 16 Dec 2026 | Gallery North

Stacey Pitsillides and Ellen Sampson 

Private view: 26 November, 5pm. 

Postmortem Life envisions an alternative immortality that unfurls and permeates our biological and data bodies, diverging and converging to embody a range of post-digital worlds. As artists we ask the viewer to voyeuristically feel, touch, hold, lounge, breathe, watch and be part of a feminist immortality dissolving the boundaries between cellular bio-power and the techno-human assemblage. Cybernetic concepts of the techno-human and its feedback loops are ruptured as we employ the plasticity of feminist immortality to activate consciousness evading the control of biopower. This can be applied to cellular and AI generative technologies through a mode of continual merger where we seek to form a resistance to external figures and systems of control. Using Bennet’s political ecologies we ask: what if we could overwrite ourselves and merge into each other so our vibrant materialities cannot be separated and have no origin to reanimate or immortalise?