LOCATION: Outdoor exhibition by the museum allotment Rotthofs MAP.
«Non-technological devices» are composite tools made from gleaned natural elements, assembled to mimic the technological devices that populate our daily lives. Between rudimentary productions and science-fiction creations, these objects are as much prolongations of bodies as they are hindrances. Associated with invented artefacts whose use remains to be discovered, they create together a fictional universe that functions as a mirror held up to our fantasies of the future.
With this project the artist Chloé Milos Azzopardi wishes to create new desires, to generate images that can be resources for our imaginations. How can we show an alternative future in the face of our dreams of a hyper-artificialized and technologized world?
Azzopardi seeks other ways of imagining augmented lives, creating organic cyborgs aimed at inscribing the body differently in the environment. Dealing with human intervention on nature, our relationship to technology and the overexploitation of the planet, her research explores other forms of cohabitation with the earthly living and opens up avenues of reflection on what could be an iconography of ecological self-defence.
Chloé Milos Azzopardi (1994) works and lives at L’Ile Saint Denis, on the outskirts of Paris. She works on long-term projects mixing photography, performance and installation. She was recently awarded the prize “New writings of environmental photography” at La Gacilly Festival, and the Lucie Foundation’s Emerging Artist grant.
