MÉTACONTEMPORAIN

29/10/2025

Credit “Flood” by Romain Roucoules transforms the ephemeral into the physical, giving form to the endless torrent of images circulating through social media. Suspended printers, connected to live feeds, continuously download and print black-and-white images sourced from social platforms. The result is a relentless cascade of low-resolution portraits, memes, quotes, and snapshots, fragments of digital life that normally vanish in seconds. As the printed rolls pile up on the floor, they create an evolving sculpture, a growing archive of our collective digital footprint. Roucoules exposes the overwhelming nature of online visibility while questioning the value and permanence of these endlessly shared images. This is not just a machine, it is a visual memory engine of the internet age.

23/10/2025

Credit I have long been fascinated by symbols of femininity and the earliest representations of the human body. Prehistoric Venus figurines, created more than 20,000 years ago, are among the first artistic images of humankind: they embody fertility, nature, and the life force itself.

Over the past several years, I’ve been working on a Venus figurine database that brings these ancient forms together. I’m presenting it for the first time at FEMGEN

With Universal Venuses, I aim to reframe these primordial figures in the age of artificial intelligence. I bring together the bodies of prehistoric Venuses from across cultures and geographies to generate universal, composite Venuses.

From this database, I trained an AI to generate new, imagined Venuses. The algorithm, informed by the gathered data, merges or reinterprets figurines, assigning them speculative materials, textures, and even fictive contexts of discovery. These digital composites are not ends in themselves, but become models for sculpture, re-materialized in clay or stoneware. In this way, I translate AI’s speculative forms into tangible objects.

The works oscillate between the archaic and the contemporary. Born from the memory of the first human images, yet shaped by today’s technological tools. Ultimately, Universal Venuses explores how ancestral archetypes can be reborn through contemporary means, and how the universal can emerge from diversity, hybridity, and reinvention.

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Exhibited at the 4th edition of FEMGEN
21 October 2025 |
Curated by .ap &

Featuring pioneers: Vera Molnar
Alongside contemporary artists: .hr and myself

On Tuesday 21st October, I am very pleased to participate in the panel “Generating Bodies: The Art of Modeling Venus” in conversation with pioneer artist CopperGiloth and Peter Bouman

Supported by .xyz &

20/10/2025

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17/10/2025

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16/10/2025

16/10/2025

16/10/2025

We invite you to register for three special events in October and November as part of our show 𝗘𝘀𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰 𝗔𝗹𝗴𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗺𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗥𝗲-𝗘𝗻𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗲𝘀, curated by Arianna Forte and Noemi Garay.
https://panke.gallery/exhibition/esoteric-algorithms-and-re-enchanted-technologies

RSVP/register at: [email protected]

📚 Tue, 21 Oct
7:30–9 PM
Reading Group with Dasha Ilina
https://panke.gallery/event/esoteric-algorithms-and-re-enchanted-technologies-reading-group

Join us for a special session of our reading group Esoteric Algorithms & Re-Enchanted Technologies, taking place within the exhibition space. For this session, artist Dasha Ilina will be present. Esoteric Algorithms & Re-Enchanted Technologies is a framework that embraces esoteric and embodied knowledge as a tool to challenge dominant narratives of technological rationality, control, and exclusion. We read texts on magical thinking, alternative techno-histories, and the politics of computation through a critical, feminist, materialist lens.

🪄 Sun, 26 Oct
1:30–4 PM
AICON: Collective Icon-Making in the Algorithmic Age; workshop by Tommaso Cappelletti & Jumoke Fernandez
https://panke.gallery/event/aicon-collective-icon-making-in-the-algorithmic-age

✦ How Do We Picture Artificial Intelligence? ✦
In this hands-on workshop, participants will explore the hidden power of icons, symbols, and metaphors that shape our collective imagination of AI. Drawing on AICON’s evolving archive of AI iconography—sparkles, wands, and glowing orbs that stand in as enchanted symbols of complex systems—we will explore how these metaphors shape cultural imaginaries while masking the material realities of technology.
Through drawing exercises and metaphor exploration, we will imagine new speculative icons that question how design encodes ideology, labor, and belief into everyday interfaces. This workshop invites artists, designers, and researchers to engage critically and creatively with the aesthetics of the algorithmic age, reimagining what a more transparent, responsible, and poetic visual language of AI might look like.

🃏 Tue, 4 Nov
7–9 PM
A Practical Guide to Ecological Divination; performative lecture by Crawler
https://panke.gallery/event/a-practical-guide-to-ecological-divination

Storytelling is a tool for making sense of troubling times. This may explain the rise in popularity of divination systems like astrology and tarot in recent years. The origin of the ecological crisis is disputed, but the schism between science and magic is one node that can be easily traced. The dominator systems of empire, capitalism, organized religion, and patriarchy have erased the symbiosis of these paradigms, to the detriment of knowledge. We see cartomancy not as a form of determinism but as a system of sense-making and pattern-finding.
In this performance lecture, we defy the separation of these practices by exploring the role of narrative construction through the random arrangement of ecological archetypes informed by the tradition of tarot. Crawlers member Lyndsey Walsh will present ongoing research on Ecological Divination and explore what meaning we may be able to collectively generate by consulting ecomancy knowledge through the oikos, the aether, and the archive.

29/09/2025

Credit We need to talk about sheep!
 
Broadcaster is a mechanical sheep acting as a performer, delivering a monologue on the often overlooked power of wool. With dry wit and quiet gravity, the sheep traces its entanglement with Western civilization – from mythology to mass production, from empire to digital culture. Blurring the line between nature and technology, animal and archive, Broadcaster spins wool into a symbol of systems, memory, and the human condition.
 
“We need to talk about sheep, You and I,
we need to talk about sheep! No one specific! Tied to a contract no one ever really negotiated.
Reluctant to interact with humans, we were friends, later we became partners, then workers, and now ‘work’.
Language never played a role in our relationship; the wool-working hands regulated it.
My fleshy colleagues became the perfect image of a domesticated animal, an animal of economic theory.”

This excerpt is part of the full monologue you — and everyone else — can experience at CC, as performed by Broadcaster.

Broadcaster, 2018/2025
Silicone, epoxy, aluminium, steel, servomotors, microcontroller, speaker
180x73x73 cm

Photo by: David Stjernholm



❤️ Curator team:

Animatronics: Gadget Group / Peer Klausen
Silicone painter and hair punching : Anna Kiesser .kiesser
Eyes: Fourth Seal Studios
Sound technician: Anders Børup
Voice: Stine Nygaard