Description

I.C.U. (Intensive Care Unit) is a robotic installation staging bedridden, sick, and suffering machines that react to the presence of viewers in a disjointed medical allegory where the mechanical creatures and their life support system start to move with pain and struggle, stretch, curl up, dislocate and resume form. This piece was conceived around the more general themes of an “ontology of the machine” and the “aesthetics of artificial behaviors” in a perspective based on the visual aspect of the machines and the programming of their reactions. Through the metaphor of an intensive care unit, this installation suggests alienation (an estrangement of reality) by an artistic appropriation of robotics and automation technologies. The strength of the simulacrum is emphasized by the inevitable instinct of anthropomorphism and projection of our internal sensations, a reflex triggered by any responsive phenomenon that challenges our senses.

Exhibitions

• Sonica Festival 2024
(Glasgow, UK)
September 19 to 29, 2024

• Nemo Biennale 2023, CentQuatre-Paris 
(Paris, France)
September 30, 2023, to January 7, 2024

• Máquina Orgánica exhibition, Canal Connect festival 
(Madrid, Spain)
March 23 to April 23, 2023

• International Digital Art Bienniale  BIAN 2021 
(Montreal, Canada)
November 19, 2021, to February 13, 2022

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