Henry Moore Institute presents Phantasmagoria: Folkloric Sculpture for the Digital Age, a major group exhibition bringing together a new generation of artists exploring how digital technologies are reshaping what sculpture can be, and how it can be used to tell stories about our past, present, and future.
Participating artists include Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Nina Davies, Joey Holder, Joe Moss, Most Dismal Swamp, Steph Linn and Philip Speakman, Isaac Lythgoe and Rustan Söderling. Working across sculpture, moving image, performance, video games and installation, new and recent work in the exhibition shares a fascination with the collision of folklore and contemporary digital culture.
Over the past decade, renewed interest in folk traditions, myth and occult practices has emerged alongside the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence, gaming and social media. In Phantasmagoria, these seemingly distant fields of creativity converge. The artists fuse ancient narrative structures with digital processes such as AI manipulation, 3D printing and platform-based media, revealing how fiction, enchantment and collective belief continue to shape our world today.
