Released to coincide with Libby Heaney’s Ent- (non-earthly delights) at Frieze Sculpture 2024, Ent-er the quantum cyborg (2024) is a new unique print in which Heaney further explores the entangled hybrid sculpture Ent- (non-earthly delights) (2024) she brought to life in Regent’s Park.

Digitally printed on a mirrored gold Dibond aluminium panel – a material the artist has utilised since 2022 – the work layers quantum-edited textures with fragments of the animated AR experience from Ent- (non-earthly delights) and digital renders of the quantum-cyborg itself. Viewers can see themselves throughout the print, highlighting the subjective nature of reality and referencing quantum entanglement.

The amalgamation of bodies combines queered references to sculptural depictions from antiquity, such as the Laocoön Group, reclining figures in Renaissance painting such as Titian’s Venus of Urbino, and the small Paleolithic figure the Venus of Willendorf. Biomorphic blue flesh oozes from the
industrial chamber of a machine, and metallic tentacles partly inspired by the gold plating of quantum computers writhe and pulsate.

Ent-er the quantum cyborg therefore invites audiences to think about new queer forms of hybrid life in our quantum future.