Called the Mechanical Turk, it consisted of a
wooden box with whirring gears and a
mannequin dressed like a Turk, whose
hand deftly moved pieces across the board, beating most of its human opponents.
LEFT: Rhonda Wheatley, «Empath Protector,» 2016, Vintage
mannequin hand,
wooden beads, natural fluorite crystal tetrahedrons, and acrylic paint / / RIGHT: Rhonda Wheatley, «Subconscious Translator,» 2016, Vintage headphones, beads, quartz crystals, plant roots, fossilized shark teeth, snake skin sheddings, collage, and acrylic paint
A highlight of the exhibition is Canadian artist Annie MacDonell's The Shape of Time, Revisited (2012) in which she restores the
wooden hand of an antique fortune telling
mannequin while meditating on George Kubler's 1962 text The Shape of Time: Remarks on the History of Things.