Bat hand blob wing (quantum hybrid)

About this work

Prints from Heaney's 2022 solo show remiQXing still at Fiumano Clase, London, which turned the gallery into a showroom for QX, her fictional quantum-computing company. The Quantum Hybrids are watercolours of hybrid creatures, inspired by the liminal figures in Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights, that were fragmented and recomposed by her own quantum code and printed on transparent acrylic. They are the source illustrations for her installation Ent- (2022). The show also included prints on mirrored gold Dibond (UNCHARTED, Potential – light) that consider the possible futures of quantum computing.

Technique

Since 2019 Heaney has written her own quantum code in Qiskit and run it on IBM's publicly available quantum computers. She uses it to scramble and recombine the pixels of scanned watercolours, so entanglement between pixels makes the image flow across the picture plane like a quantum wave.

Quantum Systems

IBM Quantum

Context drawn from the Quantum Hybrids collection.

Collection: Quantum Hybrids
Year: 2022
Medium: C-type print of scanned watercolour painting, manipulated by bespoke quantum computer code, on clear acrylic with gold aluminium frame
Dimensions: 38 × 38 cm (15 × 15 in.)
Location: London
Held by: Fiumano Clase
Status: Print