too fragile to hold, July 11 - August 10 2024

Dreaming of new convergences, provoking memories, and grasping on to the interconnection of nature, each artist collaborates with different methods and technologies: computer generated imagery, virtual reality, LiDAR scans and AI mitigate the complex data processes of our combined experiences.

Wes Viz’s virtual land art emerges from the remote Westfjords region, in a village called Ísafjörður, built to reimagine landscape with an attempt to decolonise vegetation. Digitally Rewilding The Westfjords is rendered in 8k, a meticulously constructed CGI that attempts a rewilding of current populated environments, positioning an alternate past and present; one where we had not replaced native vegetation with invasive species.

Plane of Incidence AI by Sabrina Ratté explores the convergence of objects and living beings, drawing inspiration from their conceptual, spiritual, and scientific connections. Informed by philosophical concepts such as object agency, animism, and Lynn Margulis' "Interliving," this video series seeks to re-enchant reality by exploring the interconnectedness of all forms of existence.

Faisal Karadsheh uses LiDAR scans and spatialized soundscapes to build an immersive world that delves into the act of remembering - individually, collectively, and ecologically - amidst loss. A personal reflection on the process of memory formation between the artist and the site, Memory of a Shrinking, Sinking, Living-Dead Sea explores a fragile, religious, and regional site of healing, cyclically teetering on the brink of demise.

Yoshi Sodeoka delves into the human inclination to seek shapes and significance in the world, especially within the context of natural phenomena, prompting a deeper exploration of our cognitive processes and their nature. r = θ guides the audience through simulations of the golden ratio, the choreography of weather patterns, the behaviors of insects like moths and butterflies, and the mesmerizing murmurations of starlings.

/lick is an interactive installation from AENL that catalogues the endangered species of the digital world. Bringing together the mechanics of online gaming with the presentation strategies of the laboratory, this project creates unexpected points of contact between human and digital bodies.

In A New Protocol, Timur Si-Qin launches New Peace to communicate a non dualistic and secular spirituality adapted for the future that rejects the old dualisms of nature vs. culture and spirit vs. matter, instead fostering a non-dual conception of reality. It is a new protocol to understanding one’s place in the vastness of time and space, and a toolkit for building new myths and meanings for a world undergoing profound changes. Here, the natural and the synthetic coalesce beyond the dualities through digitally rendered landscapes of New Peace’s advertisements within an immersive virtual reality experience. 

too fragile to hold serves to remind us that all is cosmic, symbiotic, interconnected, intersected, and intertwined. Grasping at the urgent inequities of our time and grappling with the paradoxical trajectory the world hurtles towards, amidst rigid systems, a precautious hopeful path is driven by new tech at a relentless pace where digital products promise solutions. Where searching for pathways to follow only unfurls cascading questions. 

Where do we go from here? Will we follow the birds when the weather changes? How can we evolve beyond borders? Will the ocean currents steady? Are we but particles in a spatialised system? How do we move beyond the definitions that constrain our realities? Can we (now and here and then too) build vast and intricate bridges between each other, tangible and intangible?