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Artworks That 'Crisscross the Uncanny Valley' Heading to the High Line

By Maya Rajamani | February 3, 2017 3:06pm

CHELSEA — Visitors to the High Line will be transported to the “uncanny valley” this spring as part of an exhibit opening along the elevated park.

Mutations” showcases the work of a dozen artists from around the world, several of whom live and work in New York City.

The work “explores the relationship between man and nature, looking at how the boundaries between the natural world and culture are defined, crossed and obliterated,” High Line Art said in a release.

“The works featured in the exhibition crisscross the uncanny valley between the unnatural and the all too human, and between the laughably futuristic and the bizarrely contemporary,” it said.

“The exhibition… asks: as technology becomes more invisible and genetic engineering more conceivable, how do the delineations between nature and culture shift and transform?"

The artists’ works will be on display throughout the park starting this April and ending in March 2018.