Human Human Human_The Agency of Contra-Intelligence

The current culture of technocapitalism reinforces our belief in exponential continuity. Can we still take the belief as the way to tell our story? In the belief of an exponential curve, any fluctuation or pause can easily feel like a crisis, a horror.

“The hard part of standing on an exponential curve is, when you look backwards it looks flat and, when you look forward it looks vertical. It’s hard to calibrate how much you are moving, because it always looks the same.”

This work begins from the juxtaposition of Silicon Valley’s tech elites and Renaissance men; their capacity of building the future. Taking the counterpoise as a sculptural translation for the multiple orientations of a renaissance body, this work is composed of three parts installation.

They are standing independently but not for the individual. They resemble an agency in a way unexplained but connected to each other somehow. Fabric, leather, paper, vaseline, clay, cement, metal, and plastic, made of different materials they are, but speaking the same language; We can never give up on the verticality.

Fence, cement, Fabrics, Aluminum, zip ties, ceramic, vaseline, iron oxide pigment
Photo: © Heyon Han