Synthetic Realities

The exhibition brings together artistic works that engage with contemporary tensions between digital overstimulation, affective exhaustion, and fragmented embodiment. While varied in form and method, these works share an interest in examining how technological hyperpresence modulates attention, perception, and self-experience. The projects unfold within hybrid perceptual ecologies, where organic and machinic systems interlace: microorganisms interface with data flows, plants intervene in technological relics, and movement is captured, computed, and reflected back as mediated feedback. These spaces are not imagined as oppositional, but as entangled zones shaped by overlapping ecological, technological, and psychological infrastructures. At stake is the question of how subjectivity is reorganized under conditions of continuous connectivity and sensory saturation—and how artistic practices can respond. Many of the works explore sensory-oriented counter-models to chronic overstimulation: through mindfulness, contact with nature, tactile impulses, or fragmented modes of narration. Together, these works formulate a critical and poetic search for new relations between technology, and map out a critical and affectively attuned search for new relational modes between bodies and interfaces, stimuli and care, signal and sensation.