{Monolith}

The Monolith series explores technologies and materials – from integrated circuits to plastic polymers – that can become lasting relics of human activity. We ask questions about the “deep matter” of future epochs: what will survive as a geological-technological layer of the Earth, and into what forms can the relics of our civilization transform. Monolith is understood here both as a uniform block of rock and as a coherent technological architecture – a symbol of the unknown core of a future archive, a carrier of information, and a material record of human activity.

About the format

The gallery becomes an open laboratory where the creative process is as important as its material result. We are interested in the visible, real relationship between artistic work and the activities of scientists, and the possibility of incorporating them into practices of more sustainable artistic production, based on biological and regenerating materials. The installation develops before the audience's eyes, and the space itself begins to function as an experimental environment.

The Monolith series also seeks quasi-exhibition formats in which the institution does not so much present objects as perform its own structure – a network of relationships, processes, and collaborations. We think of it as an organism co-created by flows of knowledge, matter, and technology. This mode of operation, in turn, refers to contemporary machine learning practices, where meaning emerges from iterations, relationships, and continuous data updates. Similarly, we treat the exhibition space: as an environment that constantly changes, reacts, and invites the public to experience not a finished work, but an ongoing research process.