“An imagined future is seen through the works in Performance Enhancements, recalling a sci-fi domestic aesthetic that fuses the sleek absurdity of neon surrealism with the intimate scale of everyday life. In this speculative space, biogenetic design and robotic convenience coexist with wellness and performance-enhancing regimes, echoing a broader cultural shift where bodies and homes alike become sites of optimisation. 

There’s a strange nostalgia for the future, a longing for utopias that never arrived, filtered through glossy surfaces and therapeutic commodities. This vision is haunted by the post-pandemic fixation on health and wellness, revealing a latent anxiety about control, enhancement, and the porous boundary between organic and synthetic life. These hybrid spaces call into question the very idea of human agency, drawing on the surreal aesthetics of technoculture and the speculative philosophies that trace its evolution.” Joanna Jones

List of works:

[images forthcoming]

1.
Simon Willems
Untitled (We’ve Never Had It So Good), 2023-25
Oil and acrylic on linen

2. 
Karen Densham
Tattletale, 2016 
Ceramic, diamond earring

3.
Karen Densham
Snitch, 2018
Ceramic, pearl earring

4. 
Karen Densham
Rogue, 2017
Ceramic, diamond earring

5.
Karen Densham
Stud, 2019
Ceramic

6.
Ada Bond
Birthday Soot, 2025
Oil on canvas

7.
Ada Bond
Love Rat, 2024
Oil on canvas

8.
Will Peck
9m², 10 minutes, 2025
Robotic vacuum, marker pen

9.
Terry Bond
Maclaren Mk III, 2017
Pushchair, wooden blocks

10.
Carl Morton
Untitled (Dohyō), 2024
Video loop

11.
Ada Bond & Terry Bond
Fumer tue (Smoking kills), 2019
Oil on canvas

12. 
Karen Densham
Dough, 2023
Ceramic