We have entered an era where the world loses coherence day by day. It is as if Pandora kept opening new boxes and the machineries of desire spilled out across the Earth. In humanity’s vast laboratory, an unstoppable loop of production and consumption keeps inventing ways to give voice to objects. This constructed reality releases impossible, monstrous bodies into the everyday, entangled in their own ailments, while we live under the illusion that we control natural mechanisms.

Following Simondon, we are asked to understand and accept these emerging technical beings, and to communicate with them as a condition of living here. They are bodies in becoming, evolving through time. To grasp the relations between nature and these technical entities, we need to seek their essence by studying their genesis and operation.

Yet facing these possibly living technical entities breeds alienation. Instead of an encounter, nature is compelled to consume amid the flood of production. The sensed presence of an unidentified organism, together with the damage caused by exceeding environmental limits, turns creation into a lurking devil.

Deleuze reminds us that desire can move toward its own destruction. An organism that insists on imposing its logic and rituals will force nature into rebellion and try to free itself from automatic habits. What remains are fragmented bodies, postmodern entities that are neither life oriented nor purely mechanistic, set against nature’s revolt and the specter of global warming.

-Erfan Ashourioun

Altar looks at how our tools drift toward creaturehood. Erfan builds a moving body from the debris of production and asks us to face it. The work speaks in the language of labs, prosthetics, and prayer. Horror appears, yet the point is attention and responsibility. Technical things pick up habits. Habits become rituals. Rituals resemble life. Nature answers as kin with limits. When we ignore those limits, forms split, stutter, and shed coherence. Please sit with this creature. Listen to the rhythms it learned from us. Ask what kind of world raised it, and what kind of care we owe it.

-Parham Ghalamdar