A Curious Cabinet is a drawing series by Cathryn Dwyre that was developed for the Tomorrows group exhibition at the Onassis Cultural Centre in Athens, Greece in 2017.
A speculative collection of fictitious hybrids, the drawings incorporate diverse source material ranging from Renaissance painting to 18th-century botanical drawings. In this way, A Curious Cabinet sets its gaze on the past as well as the future through an exploration of a teeming, delicate, impossible and fractious ecosystem, an ambiguous condition situated in the strange and the familiar, human and nonhuman, natural and unnatural.
Tomorrows exhibition: http://tomorrows.sgt.gr/index.php?lang=en
Tomorrows exhibition catalog: http://tomorrows.sgt.gr/ebook.php?pid=119&lang=en
Tomorrows exhibition catalog PDF: http://tomorrows.sgt.gr/images/e-book/Tomorrows_Book_V_E_BOOK_SMALL.pdf