Synthetic Heart
”Installation“ , 2020
Synthetic Heart is a posthuman installation that examines the mechanization of life and the reconfiguration of subjectivity in an age of automation. At its core, an electronic organ emerges from a biological heart, evoking a hybrid entity suspended between flesh and machine.
The work interrogates the legacy of anthropocentrism and mechanistic philosophy, which historically positioned humans in opposition to nature while reducing living systems to instruments of utility. By reversing this logic, the installation proposes a speculative ecosystem in which technological systems inherit organic functions and emotional residues.
Through pulsation, illumination, and mechanical repetition, the artificial heart simulates vitality while exposing its own emptiness. This cyclical performance reflects contemporary anxieties surrounding artificial intelligence, automation, and technological dependency. Rather than presenting a utopian or dystopian future, the work situates the viewer within an ambiguous threshold where biological identity dissolves into electro-mechanical processes.
As a symbolic pathology of contemporary existence, Synthetic Heart envisions a posthuman condition in which machines perpetuate programmed actions indefinitely—long after the disappearance of the human body.
