LONDON, June 02, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HOFA Gallery is pleased to present Specimens of Time: The Glitched Sublime, a new exhibition by Maja Petrić opening during SXSW London 2026. At a moment increasingly shaped by speed, automation, and relentless digital production, the exhibition proposes a different role for technology: a medium for meaning, perception, and felt connection with the natural world.
Developed over more than two decades, Petrić's practice integrates custom AI, robotics, light, and real-time environmental data to produce works in which ecological change directly generates form. The Glitched Sublime was developed in collaboration with AI scientist and roboticist Mihai Jalobeanu using live Arctic climate data as its primary material.
The work proceeds from a single premise: artwork is not a depiction of environmental change but a physical record of it. In the Arctic, warming is accelerating at twice the global average, destabilising the seasonal conditions on which life in the region depends. Arctic poppies emerge within these conditions, blooming briefly before temperatures exceed the thresholds of their survival. The exhibition tracks this unraveling through lightbox sculptures and pigment works generated by custom robotics and AI responding in real time to live climate data.
