Recalculating
As throughout all of history, technology arrives promising us wonderful, fast, fascinating and useful solutions. And so they are: the promises are kept. We can now see loved ones thousands of kilometers away on a screen and virtually, access information on almost any subject, use cleaner forms of energy and produce food at lower cost — all thanks to new technologies.
"We no longer live in heaven and on earth," says Byung-Chul Han, "but in the cloud and in Google Earth."
I feel we are at a key moment in human history where countless possibilities open up to come to the Rescue of the World. But because we are human, the possibility of abusing these technological resources also opens up — and that is where I think we should recalculate.
This work is a call to not lose our most primal instincts of connection, poetry, sensuality, visual and physical contact, and contact with nature — also to come to the Rescue of the World. Of the most everyday world: the world of closeness, the knowing glance, the spontaneous and loud laughter, the kisses and hugs. To not lose real connection, even though we have the possibility and good fortune of using the virtual one.
I used recycled glass printed with old drawings to support the idea of not forgetting the most primal thing a human being has — which is precisely humanity itself.
