Mads Brimble: The Keepers

Quietly inhabiting the Artist’s Garden at Queen’s Square, The Keepers by Mads Brimble exude a calm, watchful presence. At once alien and intensely familiar, they seem to belong to an alternate reality, yet somehow, they have slipped through the veil to take root in our own. Born digitally, the shapes that form each sculpture are generated by a custom genetic algorithm. The algorithm’s infinite capacity to evolve and expand reflects the potential of queer futurity, a vision of limitless possibility for becoming. While their precise, metallic surfaces hint at a digital origin, their sinuous, organic silhouettes evoke the natural world. By inverting the presumed order of nature and technology, Brimble challenges the norms and binaries that shape our lives in an increasingly online world. 

In conjunction with The Keepers at Queen’s Square, visit Cambridge Public Library, Clemens Mill to explore more dynamic sculptures by Mads Brimble. 

Curated by Ashlyn Gregory

Mads Brimble is a contemporary artist based in Toronto, Canada. Brimble delves into the use of technology and creative coding to produce tangible sculptural artworks. Her work manifests as a series of sculptures representing organisms from alternate worlds, blending traditional and digital processes to imagine new possibilities for life and being. Brimble's artistic practice explores speculative evolution, genetics and processes of change, with a specific focus on challenging societal norms and assumptions that are often reinforced through biological discourses.

Photographs by Ozzy Garcia.