Alicia Frankovich

Presented concurrently with her inclusion in the 2026 iteration of the TarraWarra International, Bio Techno Imaginations is Alicia Frankovich’s second solo exhibition with 1301SW, and continues her interest in the potential for new modes of imagining both human and non-human form and behaviour.

Made up of numerous drawings — composed in paint, biro, and ink — Frankovich see these works functioning as individual performances. With a machine-like quality, she responds to ideas and images onto paper, back through her own body. Reimagining the genre of botanical drawing, these works evoke underwater sea creatures, exploring the rhythmic movement that invertebrates make in the depths of the ocean, while linking with futuristic explorations of the galaxy. Through this duality of exploration, Frankovich’s speculative convergence of the technological apparatus with organic life expands possibilities for being and knowing.

These drawings are observations of the rhythms of the biosphere and it’s co-becoming with the technosphere.