Lot 171: 'Embryonic Manufacture' by Gregory Epps, Robofold
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Description
I founded RoboFold in order to design machines that make things. I program machine instructions using advanced software, just as genetic information organises cell growth in living organisms. From my point of view, an egg is a highly efficient structure, housing a manufacturing system for animal embryos, in turn manufactured by the parent of said animal. 'Embryonic Manufacture' brings together the extremes of artificially created structures to cradle and protect the egg, a symbol of maximum biological structural efficiency itself - thus commenting on man's attempts to appropriate the roles of the biological world.
About the artist
Gregory Epps is an artist, designer, maker, architect, empirical engineer and entrepreneur. Through a strong sense of material characteristics and a broad understanding of how things get made, both industrially and by hand, Epps has come to be a maker of machines that make things. The RoboFold system is the result of 15 years of experimentation in to the design of artefacts through the curved folding of developable surfaces. Epps and his team are based in Brixton, where they develop art, furniture and architectural installations with custom software and six-axis robots.
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