Anca Poterașu

“The exhibition experiment Internet of (Living) Things. At the Boundary of the Object, Toward the Edge of the Human [Io(L)T], situated—using the language of quantum physics—in a state of superposition, where the curator relinquishes the role of observer, paradoxically simulates a set of non-observational positions. Through new media installations and conceptual compositions, it creates the conditions for imagining a totality and for overlooking ‘distances of meaning’—understood as collapses of relationality that give way to the impersonal in exchange for engaging in a process of affective archaeology. Between the preset of a distanced gaze and the assumption of the wave function’s presence within the exercise of exhibition production, the works by Andrei Botnaru, Cătălin Marinescu, Radu Marțin, and Marian Mina Mihai construct laboratory-like situations that become instruments for perceptual, conceptual, and affective probing of the limits of a reality in which the human entity transforms into either a disruptive factor or a catalyst in interaction with other bodies, translating invisible data into sensitive cartographies. By surpassing the boundaries between object and subject through installations that encourage contact, reaction, and the displacement of everyday order, Io(L)T also hybridizes the exhibition space with that of the bazaar, the playground, the garden, and the forest, inviting visitors to reconsider their encounter with materiality and the specificity of objects as a discontinuous flow of re-signification.”