To Traverse serves as both testing-ground and inaugural landing of Modal Imaginaries, a novel vessel investigating exhibition-making as conduits for the cross-pollination of (planetary) thought.
Arising from different processes of sensing new worlds, the exhibited works serve at once as jewels, waypoints and proposed keys to decipher widely perceived shifts across biological, aesthetic, political and technological landscapes.
Investigating the physical cryptography embedded within technoheritage. The work of Justin Urbach features pairs of 3D stainless steel printed calibration obiects as data relics originating from a manifold of (digital) future-pasts yet-to-come. These artefacts contain concealed information, nested and preserved within their techno-shells. Access to this information requires the use of specific technical systems. As part of Subtle Echoes, the monitors serve as proof of works for these metal objects, revealing glimpses into their cryptic interiors.
Justin Urbach
To Travese
Buhnstrasse 13a, 8052 Zurich
21 September – 13 October 2024
