Non Technological Devices

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.