michele bosak projects

Extremophilia: A G’NATural History Exhibit is a speculative autobiography that unfolds as a science fiction narrative, charting the excavation of memory, identity, and myth. Presented as a hybrid between a natural history museum and a cinematic journey, the exhibition layers film, illustration, sculpture, and photography to construct a world where past and present intertwine. The project dismantles characters as psychological projections, drawing upon Jungian theory to explore the unconscious through biological and cosmological frameworks. Within this imagined universe, memory is not linear but operates as an entangled system of echoes and distortions. Artifacts serve as portals, revealing the traces of past selves and ancestral lineages, while wormholes link generational resilience across time. The work challenges the boundaries between observation and participation, inviting the audience to not only witness but become entangled in the evolving narrative. As myth and science converge, Extremophilia presents a hero’s journey that is both deeply personal and universally resonant—an excavation of self that, like all buried histories, is destined to resurface.