Lynn Hershman Leeson once observed of her practice,”Consistently, my most relevant ideas occur on the cusp of some disaster.”

“Twisted,” a survey that unfolds across the second floor of the New Museum, explores the twists and turns of Leeson’s winding career, teasing apart its wiring to better understand the scope of her electrifying legacy. Its most potent takeaway may be how, with every step, the artist has wielded cutting-edge, of-the-moment technology to consider, for better or for worse, the broader repercussions for humankind-interrogating human nature from every which way in the process.