The Clinic of The Unbodied
Berlin, Gallery Week
Dec 2021 – March 2022
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The Clinic of The Unbodied presents ten sculptures and media works where animal remains appear alongside prosthetic structures, algorithmic signals, and clinical devices. These assemblages ar e not reconciliations of the organic and the synthetic. They operate as estranged anatomies that ask what bodies are, and how they are altered, managed, or remembered within systems of care and control.
The exhibition unfolds in a former veterinary clinic, a site marked by the ambivalence of healing and euthanasia. Within this charged setting, bones, circuitry, and prosthetic architectures are treated not as symbols but as active residues of larger economies: agriculture, inheritance, technological governance. Their conjunction exposes how care is inseparable from authority, and how the gesture of maintenance can also function as a form of domination.
Media installations extend these questions into the terrain of memory and affect. AI-generated images and machinic speech loops suggest how cognition circulates across networks of storage and code rather than remaining within the biological brain. The Clinic of The Unbodied invites viewers to confront the present conditions under which bodies are designed, technologised, and controlled, offering a diagnostic vision rather than a speculative future.
Credits:
Curation/Exhibition Design: Maria Basantes
Photography: Hannah Brandes
Graphic Design: David Rindlisbacher
Exhibition Design Assistance: Natalia De Leon
Funded by:
HSBI Bielefeld
DockDigital
Dec 2021 – March 2022
View Video with Sound
The Clinic of The Unbodied presents ten sculptures and media works where animal remains appear alongside prosthetic structures, algorithmic signals, and clinical devices. These assemblages ar e not reconciliations of the organic and the synthetic. They operate as estranged anatomies that ask what bodies are, and how they are altered, managed, or remembered within systems of care and control.
The exhibition unfolds in a former veterinary clinic, a site marked by the ambivalence of healing and euthanasia. Within this charged setting, bones, circuitry, and prosthetic architectures are treated not as symbols but as active residues of larger economies: agriculture, inheritance, technological governance. Their conjunction exposes how care is inseparable from authority, and how the gesture of maintenance can also function as a form of domination.
Media installations extend these questions into the terrain of memory and affect. AI-generated images and machinic speech loops suggest how cognition circulates across networks of storage and code rather than remaining within the biological brain. The Clinic of The Unbodied invites viewers to confront the present conditions under which bodies are designed, technologised, and controlled, offering a diagnostic vision rather than a speculative future.
Credits:
Curation/Exhibition Design: Maria Basantes
Photography: Hannah Brandes
Graphic Design: David Rindlisbacher
Exhibition Design Assistance: Natalia De Leon
Funded by:
HSBI Bielefeld
DockDigital
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