Galeria IMAGO LISBOA

Rua do Vale de Santo António 50C, 1170-381 Lisboa

16 . 10 . 2026 → 14 . 11 . 2025

wednesday - saturday → 02:30 pm – 06:30 pm

Artist

Chloé Azzopardi

This series is a futuristic fiction in which the artist explores other forms of cohabitation with the living and opens up avenues of reflection on what might be an iconography of ecological self-defense.

Non technological devices are composite tools made from gleaned natural elements, assembled with string to mimic the technological devices that populate our daily lives. Between rudimentary productions and science-fiction creations, these objects are as much prolongations of bodies as they are hindrances. Associated with invented artefacts they create a fictional universe that functions as a mirror held up to our fantasies of the "future".

With this project the artist wishes to create other desires, to generate images that can be resources for our imaginaries.

In the face of our dreams of a hyper-artificialized world, how to rethink the notion of progress? How to make it apply to the common good instead of a race towards technical progress for its own sake?

Trying to move beyond the naive nostalgia of a «return to nature» and the blind optimism of technological solutionism, the artist looks for narratives that could help us to combat our political discouragement and enable us to take action in the face of environmental destruction. Using fiction and play, she thinks of other ways of imagining augmented lives, creating organic cyborgs whose aim would be to inscribe the human presence differently in the environment. Cultivating making do, fragility, links between beings and precarious balances, Azzopardi uses the poetic diversion of artefacts that are symbols of technical progress to question our relationship with the living, extractivism and the disappearance of the earthly "resources", exploited to build the components of our technological objects.