Salomé Chatriot: If That Glass Breaks Humanity is Doomed

A solo show for a magpie favourite. Salomé Chatriot’s work merges technology with organic elements to suggest a harmony between human and machine, advocating for a future where technology and humanity coexist. In her work, physical processes like breathing and heart beating activate mechanical processes, resulting in a symbiosis between human bodies and technological devices. While refusing to embrace a prevailing pessimism about technological progress, she seeks for opportunities to expand our intimate relationships with technologies. In addition, she explores issues of identity, gender and sexuality through a distinctly erotic component, while it also challenges dominant narratives. Through her hybrid, disturbing yet optimistic artistic language, Chatriot is capable of generating unconventional approaches relating to technological tools. Yet there’s no pessimism about technological progress, just an exploration of opportunities to expand our relationships with it. And alongside that her 3D works consider issues of identity, gender and sexuality with a distinctly erotic component …

To 15 May.