Art & photography
EROTECH.
The body & technology.
An independent exhibition in images and prose, looking for the shape of the body in the technology we create.
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Form studies
Close-up studies of everyday technology.
Essay
Do we make our tools in our own image?
Watch a wrist turn, then watch a bearing rotate. The resemblance is so ordinary it almost disappears. Is the bearing a memory of the wrist? Or do bone and steel arrive at the same motion because both answer to the same laws of physics?
Look closer. The whorl of a fingertip becomes a pattern a sensor can recognize. A projected grid crosses a knuckle and bends with it. At this scale it gets harder to say where one form ends and the other begins. The technology makes a feature of the body visible, and the body changes the shape of what is projected onto it.
Technology can reproduce a gesture. A body can hesitate, insist, or reach for someone. What happens to the likeness when the gesture carries affection or desire?
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The project
EROTECH brings prose and studio photography together to look at how the body and technology shape our view of each other. The work moves from skin at close range to whole-body movement. A picture might follow the turn of a joint, the light of a screen across a shoulder, or a drop of liquid tracing the back.
Each portrait gives its subject room to find a gesture that feels like their own. Confidence might appear in a held pose, a hand at rest, or the freedom to take up space.
In development
The book
A planned coffee-table book will bring the photographs and essays together in print. Across facing pages, a gesture can sit beside the technology it recalls, giving the eye time to move between the two.
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