(This Room is a Sculpture Called) PROPHECY is a body of newly commissioned work by pioneering multi-media artist Auriea Harvey. Curated by Pita Arreola, the exhibition marks the launch of arebyte's Digital Art Centre, a new home for the organisation’s art programme and a hub of artist studios and creative workspaces in the heart of Camden.

Harvey’s first solo exhibition in the UK, PROPHECY is an allegorical rendering of a spiritual journey, charting a course to reclaim grace and unity amid a landscape of disconnection and collective suffering. At its core lies a deep yearning for empathy amongst fractured societies.

These themes resonate with the concerns of British mystic, artist, and poet William Blake (1757–1827), who more than two hundred years ago created a series of engraved prophetic books that in their own interdisciplinary capacity combined poetry and vivid imagery. Rooted in his exposure to London’s rapid and exploitative urbanisation and his visionary experiences, Blake came to view himself as a prophet, using his art to critique the moral, political, and spiritual conditions of his time.

Imbued with the same radical charge, PROPHECY carves its own mystical immersive system through a pollination of figures from Catholic faith with epic tales drawn from Greek mythos. The resulting exhibition is constructed as a mythic technological infrastructure made up of individual and interconnected digital artworks that are suggestive of religious architecture. This spatial arrangement, along with the presence of saintly figures in the galleries, seeks to evoke a moment of introspective reflection in the audience. Through this composition, Harvey presents the virtues and flaws that characterise a society ruled by technological frameworks, and invites us to explore the potential of spirituality and collective human action to emancipate oneself from algorithmic control. 

Bringing together motion capture, holograms, AI-generated choreography and 3D printing within an interactive installation spanning three immersive chambers, PROPHECY is a counterstrategy to the pacifying impacts that contemporary technologies that AI and social media have on our perception of reality, calling for a rediscovery of spirituality and the empowerment of collective action. Harvey offers a poetic resistance to digital opacity, proposing that prophecy in the 21st century might not be about prediction, but about feeling, embodiment, and transforming the tools that govern us.
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OPENING HOURS
Wed - Sun, 12 - 6 pm

Opening Event
Thu 11 Sept 2025
6:30 - 9 pm

Exhibition Tours
Thu 02 Oct 2025 7pm
Thu13 Nov 2025 7pm
In-depth exhibition tour
led by curator Pita Arreola

EXHIBITION CREDITS

Artist: Auriea Harvey
Curator: Pita Arreola
Animator: Laura Raines Smith
Music and Sound: Michael Samyn
Movement Coach: Ania Catherine
Exhibition Designer: Henrique Lázaro
Technicians: Ross Godman, Giuli Dal Lago, Andrew Rayner, Milo Stapleton, Dimitry Timofeev, Orsola Zane
Fabricators: Tim Crombie
Vinyl Specialist: Puck Studio
LED Specialist: Hanke Vollmer
Projection Mapper: Blanca Regina
Graphic Designer: Camilla Hiscock
Photographer: Devika Bilimoria

arebyte team
Creative Director: Nimrod Vardi
Managing Director: Claudel Goy
Producer: Henrique Lázaro
Communication Manager: Titash Sen

Funded by Arts Council England

Warnings: Fog, trip hazard

Auriea Harvey is a Rome-based digital pioneer whose practice materialises virtual elements into physical reality. From her groundbreaking Internet art roots to contemporary 3D scanning and printing processes, she creates sculpture, software and installations that navigate between digital and tangible worlds. Her art historical influenced, technology-driven approach reimagines mythology, bodily transformation, and figurative traditions.

CURATOR BIO

Pita Arreola is a London-based curator and co-founder of Off Site Project, a curatorial platform supporting emerging international artists working in digital media. She has curated over 200 artists from across the world. She was Curator of Digital Art at the Victoria and Albert Museum. She is also co-editor of Digital Art: 1960s–Now a landmark publication exploring global histories of digital art.