Will we imagine in our gadgets? Community-based applied sciences equivalent to ChatGPT or Google Maps have develop into our closest companions: They know each path and each reply. Whereas these algorithmic intelligences more and more elude our comprehension, we nonetheless imagine they might deliver salvation. Typically, their workings appear so inscrutable that we take them for magic. This ambivalent relationship is on the coronary heart of the exhibition «algorithmic-mega- death-superspell.exe» by St.Gallen-based artist Aramis Navarro (*1991 in Zurich/CH).
In his most complete solo exhibition thus far, Navarro explores algorithms as media of revelation and up to date oracles. Language runs by means of his kaleidoscopic work as each materials and technique: Spoken strains of code flip into poems, fragments of algorithms into neon indicators, letters into holy figures. His apply of typing ideas and observations with a typewriter on recycled paper sheets usually lays the groundwork for his items. From this evergrowing archive, Navarro develops works equivalent to his ongoing collection II (Inflected Introspection): As an alchemist may, the artist casts his paper notes in resin and hangs them on the wall like valuable amber inclusions. In his set up Ratking’s hyper-sanctum, particularly developed for the Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Navarro turns mirror-smooth surfaces into display-like altar items. And in his collection Defixio, the younger artist attracts on the milleniums-old customized of curse tablets: inscriptions carved into skinny sheets of lead, buried close to graves or temples, meant to bewitch folks. Navarro transfers such occult practices to aluminium plates, into which he incises fragments of fictitious algorithms. With such works, Aramis Navarro attracts connections between magic rituals, notions of the sacred, and digital applied sciences. On this manner, «algorithmic-mega-death- superspell.exe» questions the function which algorithms play in our present perception methods.
The exhibition marks a spotlight within the fortieth anniversary yr of the Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen. On Monday, 9 June 2025, we’re internet hosting our anniversary celebration – precisely 40 years after the founding efficiency within the Volksbad St.Gallen on 9 June 1985. We’re trying ahead to performative interventions by Aramis Navarro, Julia Kubik, and PRICE, a meals parcours by margaretha jüngling in addition to a day rave and DJ units by indirect (Valentina Stieger), Kappa-Effe (Larissa Kasper and Rosario Florio), and Haroon Mirza.
at Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen
till August 23, 2025
