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Somerset House celebrates its 25th birthday in 2025 and its role as London’s home of cultural innovators by delivering a programme that offers alternative perspectives and challenges conventions during its milestone year. Virtual Beauty, an exhibition exploring the impact of digital technologies on definitions of beauty today offers an original approach to a key issue of our time. Curated by Gonzalo Herrero Delicado, Mathilde Friis and Bunny Kinney, Virtual Beauty raises questions around gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and identity in the post-internet era, featuring over 20 compelling works from international artists working across sculpture, photography, installation and video.
From social media filters and artificial intelligence to biometrics and dating apps, the works by emerging and established artists presented in Virtual Beauty examine how we are more self-aware and calculated in the way we present ourselves publicly than ever before. A new generation has come of age that has only lived in a world where the idea of digital self-curation is a part of their everyday lives. Crossing between the virtual and physical, the exhibition highlights how questions of beauty are inherent to the proliferation of portable devices and screens on …
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Image above: Ines Alpha. I’d rather be a cyborg (2024). Photograph by Li Roda-Gil. Courtesy of the artist.
