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Photographer (2015): Elzbieta Bialkowska
The ruthlessness of the Medici's and their hunger for power was insatiable yet their dedication to the advancement of knowledge, art, and science was prolific. Supporting the most prodigious artists and scientists of their time their contribution helped pave the way for the Copernican Revolution yet they committed countless crimes and inspired the world’s most famous treatise on political realism, Machevelli's 'The Prince'. They survived revolts, coups, and long exiles only to remerge in renewed form as powerful clergy. Their capacity for renewal was commemorated by one of their later members in a new family motto RENOVABITVR (Renewal) inscribed around the image of a wheel with a long nail hammered into the top of its rim. Like a nail stuck into the material of time itself their powerful presence will be felt and their contributions to the advancement of mankind will not go unnoticed. Today they have renewed themselves once again, they are our enemy, they are our patrons, they are the infrastructure through which our data passes and through which we progress, and they are the surveillance technologies that can capture our every move. They are the high-tech labs that are working to rid us of malicious inherited diseases in the future and the financial powers that seek to bind our healthcare to the rules of profit. You will find the Medici legacy in the entanglement of these forms, prepared as ever for renewal.