With a focus on the expanding accessory as a body modification, tool, or catalyst, we were inspired by the potential of the digital realm, particularly regarding the dissolution of boundaries between living matter and machines. Through a process of digital plant picking and industrial de-plugging (3D scanning), plant elements extracted from botanical gardens and industrial components from the automobile industry unite in expansive watering cans as intense states of intermingling. Various hybrids serve as tangible transitional forms—writhing, dynamically assimilating, synthesizing, and surrendering—not rigid but in progress, ongoing, and in motion. Through additive manufacturing (3D printing), I proceed to materialize the digital mutations in porous ceramic—a body-identical, biodegradable material used in the production of medical prostheses.

The exhibition in an off-space in Geneva aimed to visually represent the progress of our ongoing Status Morpher Series. We chose to depict the ‘Zabriskie’ , a former waiting area in public transport, as a symbolic glowing red incubator, serving as a focal point. A laser was used to create a cage-like structure framing the off-space. At the center of this structure, the 3D Print was displayed on a circular mirror covered with soil. As part of the exhibition, we developed an organic complement to the 3D print. Throughout the space, we strategically arranged dried leaves in a manner that intersected with the delicate laser lines. These intersections caused the dried leaves to visually ignite with a fiery red glow.

Collaborators | Pauline Lutz, Nadine Möckli
Assistance | Martin Siegrist
Images | Pauline Lutz
Location | Zabriskie Off Space, Geneva

Supported by Abteilung Kultur Basel-Stadt