(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. Themes that 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. 

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.

OPENING HOURS
Wed - Sun, 12 - 6 pm

EVENTS PROGRAMME

Opening Party
Thursday 11th September 2025
6:30 - 9 pm

Artist Talk
Saturday 13th September 2025 3 pm

Curatorial Tours
Thursday 25th September 2025 7pm
Thursday 13th November 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
Creative Director: Nimrod Vardi
Managing Director: Claudel Goy
Producer & Exhibition Designer:
Henrique Lázaro
Communications Manager:Titash Sen
Graphic Designer: Camilla Hiscock
Technicians: Andrew Rayner, Dimitry Timofeev, Ross Godman, Orsola Zane, Milo Stapleton, Giuli Dal Lago
Fabricators: Tim Crombie
Vinyl Specialist: Puck Studio
LED Specialist: Hanke Vollmer
Projection Mapper: Blanca Regina
Photographer: Devika Bilimoria

Funded by Arts Council England.

Warning:
Strobe, flashing lights

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 arebyte’s new Head of Programme. A London-based curator and co-founder of Off Site Project, a curatorial platform supporting emerging international artists working in digital media, Pita has curated over 200 artists from across the UK, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, the USA, and Latin America. From 2021 to 2024, she was Curator of Digital Art at the Victoria and Albert Museum, where she led the museum’s digital art strategy. She is co-editor of Digital Art: 1960s–Now (Thames & Hudson, 2024), a landmark publication exploring global histories of digital art.