Alice Brooke’s Prototypes at Unit E, London


Alice Brooke, Prototype, 2012. Graphite on paper, 11 7/16 x 7 7/8 inches. Image courtesy of the artist.

  Reproduction is an archetypal trope in the science fictional imaginary. From the dystopian fable of Aldous Huxley’sBrave New World (1932), in which fetuses are ‘cultivated’ in plantations outside the maternal