Meiro Koizumi

As the extent to which our social lives play out in the digital world increases, our sense of the physical body begins to blur. To explore the current state of our physicality, Koizumi created a series of spatial objects called Altars. In these sculptures, the human and the technological both clash and merge. Body parts dissolve into engine blocks like the products of some Al-generated montage. They dangle helplessly from chains, suspended between the real world and the virtual one in a limbo state that is neither man nor machine. The uncomfortable poses in Altars inspire a sense of unease and revulsion, like some thing to be avoided. Koizumi has rendered the body's value tangible in a future where technology is increasingly vital.