Non Technological Devices
Chloé Azzopardi
Nominated by
FOMU

This series is a futuristic fiction in which the artist explores other forms of cohabitation with the living and opens up avenues of reflection on what might
be an iconography of ecological self-defense.
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 much prolongations of bodies as they are hindrances. Together they create a fictional universe that functions as a mirror held up to our fantasies of the future.
With this project the artist wishes to create other desires, to produce images that can be resources for our imaginaries. How to think about alternative ways of collectively evolving in the face of our dreams of a hyper-artificialized world driven by the race for technical progress ?
Trying to move beyond the naïve optimisms of a return to the earth and technological solutionism, the artist looks for narratives that could help us to combat our political discouragement and enable us to take action in the face of environmental destruction. Using fiction and play, she thinks of other ways of imagining augmented lives, creating organic cyborgs whose purpose would be to inscribe human presence differently in the environment. She uses the poetic diversion of artefacts that are symbols of technical progress to question our relationship with the living, extractivism and the disappearance of the earthly resources exploited to build the components of our technological objects.
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 much prolongations of bodies as they are hindrances. Together they create a fictional universe that functions as a mirror held up to our fantasies of the future.
With this project the artist wishes to create other desires, to produce images that can be resources for our imaginaries. How to think about alternative ways of collectively evolving in the face of our dreams of a hyper-artificialized world driven by the race for technical progress ?
Trying to move beyond the naïve optimisms of a return to the earth and technological solutionism, the artist looks for narratives that could help us to combat our political discouragement and enable us to take action in the face of environmental destruction. Using fiction and play, she thinks of other ways of imagining augmented lives, creating organic cyborgs whose purpose would be to inscribe human presence differently in the environment. She uses the poetic diversion of artefacts that are symbols of technical progress to question our relationship with the living, extractivism and the disappearance of the earthly resources exploited to build the components of our technological objects.
The Artist

Chloé Azzopardi
Nominated in
By
FOMU
Lives and Works in
Chloé Azzopardi is a French transdisciplinary artist living on an island on the
outskirts of Paris.
Her research revolves around ecology, new technologies and the construction of post-capitalocene imaginaries. She was an artist-in-residence at Villa Pérochon under the mentorship of Joan Fontcuberta. In 2025, she began a residency in regenerative design at Fondation Martell. Her work has been presented internationally in numerous festivals, galleries, and museums like Paris Photo, Rencontres d’Arles and Photo Élysée.
In 2024, she was invited by Sigma to present a large-scale exhibition combining multiple projects in Aranya and Shanghai. In 2027, she will present a solo exhibition at the Braunschweig Museum für Photographie. Supported by Fondation des Artistes for her project Tigre jaune sur fond bleu (2025), Azzopardi has received several awards and grants, including the CNAP support for contemporary documentary photography (2025).
Her first book, Non Technological Devices, will be published by Witty Books in 2026.
Her research revolves around ecology, new technologies and the construction of post-capitalocene imaginaries. She was an artist-in-residence at Villa Pérochon under the mentorship of Joan Fontcuberta. In 2025, she began a residency in regenerative design at Fondation Martell. Her work has been presented internationally in numerous festivals, galleries, and museums like Paris Photo, Rencontres d’Arles and Photo Élysée.
In 2024, she was invited by Sigma to present a large-scale exhibition combining multiple projects in Aranya and Shanghai. In 2027, she will present a solo exhibition at the Braunschweig Museum für Photographie. Supported by Fondation des Artistes for her project Tigre jaune sur fond bleu (2025), Azzopardi has received several awards and grants, including the CNAP support for contemporary documentary photography (2025).
Her first book, Non Technological Devices, will be published by Witty Books in 2026.
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