Chloroform Scopolamine
by Lucy Chinen and Sean Raspet
March 22 – April 20, 2025
Opening reception: Saturday March 22, 6pm
at IAO Gallery (932 Chung King Road, Los Angeles, CA. 90012)
Drinks for the opening are generously provided by our friends at Tomorrow, presenting California botanical spirits, made to bring you here and now. Learn more.
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Details to come.
LUCY CHINEN is an artist, writer, and, together with Sean Raspet and Dennis Oliver Schroer, a co-founder of nonfood, an algae-based food company that has featured at conferences and events like SynbioBeta, San Jose (2024); the Wall Street Journal’s Future of Everything, New York (2019); CURRENT:LA Public Art Triennial, Los Angeles (2019); and New Harvest, Boston (2018). Her art exhibitions include Sean’s Room, Los Angeles (2023); the United Nations System Staff College, Turin (2023); and was a contributor to The Synthetic Ecologies Lab, a programme by the Serpentine Galleries’ Research and Development Platform.
SEAN RASPET is an artist who has been working with scent and molecular structure for over 10 years. His work has been exhibited at the Okayama Art Summit (directed by Pierre Huyghe), Tai Kwun Contemporary Art Centre in Hong Kong, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, de Young Museum, San Francisco, M Woods Museum, Bejing, the 9th Berlin Biennale, Bridget Donahue, New York, Société, Berlin, Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, Empty Gallery, Hong Kong, Sculpture Center, New York, and The Kitchen, New York, among others.