As machines and human beings flirt with increasinglyenmeshed mutuality, how should humanity address thedeepening influence of technology on our inner lives?Protocols and people exist in a feedback loop of mutualinfluence, with subjecthood evolving in kind. Mirroring isa fundamentally human trait, but it is not our exclusivedomain. We find this mechanism of survival and pleasurewritten into our very biology in the form of mirror neurons.And yet, it is also reflected in the networked technologieshumans have built in our own image.Networks no longer mirror people, but rather each other.Algorithms mutate and mature beyond humanity’s watchfuleyes, an expansion that reverberates through humansociopolitics on the same scale as fire did for Homo erectus.Mirrormap considers this shift through a web of vantagepoints, drawing together over 20 positions across mediaincluding sound, painting, outdoor sculpture, and movingimage. Unfolding across venues including Fondation Opalein Lens/Crans-Montana, as well as public and private spacesin St Moritz and Gstaad, the exhibition reveals how humancommunications, mediated through opaque technologicallayers, disrupt empathy, cloud the loci of responsibility andcontrol, and reshape the soul’s relationship to the machine.

Sculptural works like those of Peter Wächtler, JesseDarling, and Ryan Gander playfully interrogate notions ofpersona and spirit within non-human objects, evoking analmost animistic rapport with the imaginary subjects theyform in the viewers’ minds.Katja Novitskova and Jonas Aničas magnifyuncontrollable technological forces to monumentalscales, through abstraction and materiality, renderingthem uncanny and omnipresent.Aria Dean’s moving image work leads viewers through thesurreal, disquieting corridors of an abattoir, while LesiaVasylchenko constructs an eerily artificial sky.Together, these worlds trace the unsettling edgesof a feedback loop that grows less familiar and moreautonomous. This is an exploration of humankind’stransmission of aspects of itself into non-humansystems, beings, and tools—an intimate exchangethat leaves behind lingering tremors. As machinesand networks obscure their origins and intentions,Mirrormap probes what it means to share influence withthe very creations that mirror us and yet increasinglyslip from our grasp.

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Curators: Kolja Gläser& Valentinas Klimašauskas

Assistant Curator: Ella Krivanek

Exhibition Director: Eda Ozdoyuran

Exhibition Manager: Nour Bisevac

Design Partner: Estudio Rotondo

Transportation and Installation Partner: Crozier

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