SERCHIA Gallery is honoured to present the work of Chloé Milos Azzopardi in her solo exhibition, "Non Technological Devices". The exhibition will open in part of Equinox: Bristol Gallery Weekend 21-24 March, and will then be open daily by appointment through 26 April 2024. Please join us at SERCHIA in celebrating Chloé's extraordinary body of work. We look forward to seeing you soon.
Exhibition Statement
“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 many extensions 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 wishes to create new desires, to generate images that can be resources for our imaginaries. How can we show an alternative future in the face of our dreams of a hyper-artificialised and technologised world?
Using fiction and play, Azzopardi seeks other ways of imagining augmented lives, creating organic cyborgs whose aim would be to inscribe the body differently in the environment. She uses the poetic diversion of artefacts that are symbols of technical progress to question our relationship with the living and the disappearance of the earthly "resources" used to build the components of our technological objects.
Dealing with human intervention on nature, our relationship to technology and the overexploitation of the planet, this 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-defense."
Artist Biography
Chloé Milos Azzopardi (b. 1994) is a French photographer and artist. Based on their personal experience, they are interested in the relationships between human and non-human beings, trying to get out of a prism of utility or servitude. Their research focuses on the representation of mental health and the construction of post-capitalocene imaginaries. They were recently winner of the Milk x Fisheye competition and finalist for the Palm* Photo Prize. Their work has been shown in Europe and China.
