What visual artist Chloé Azzopardi calls “organic cyborgs” are forms, tools and artefacts that reach toward an alternative future, one where technology has become something organic, a living relationship between human beings and the world they inhabit.
“What can art actually do in the face of the climate crisis?”
Her work carries us into another world, and yet they speak to a very real condition in our own. Within her fictional universe, these “poetic technologies” would step in to replace the devices of our contemporary lives. Built from foraged natural elements, wood, fibres, raw matter, her artefacts are assembled with the logic and formal language of the technical object. They look like tools. They perform roles. But what they actually do remains to be invented. In this way, her work opens onto other possibilities: in the face of resource depletion, what if the future looked like nothing we imagined ? What if it existed somewhere between the forest and the body, in that uncharted space where humans and their environment might (finally) find some kind of agreement?
