Gabey Tjon a Tham

As an installation artist I transform spaces into a sensory environment through kinetic machines, light and sound. By analyzing complex systems that occur both in nature and our digital systems I compile a common structural core. I have found a common ground between nature and the digital in how they both command our lives through uninterrupted cycles. Digital technology I consider as a natural occurrence: While what we have traditionally called nature is increasingly being influenced by human action, our technological environment is becoming increasingly complex and untameable, we almost have to relate to it as a new nature. A sublime paradox that balances between beauty and the grotesque. My mechanical sculptures can be interpreted as human, animal or a mechanism. What I consider as a new nature is an extension of how organisms behave on a micro and macro level. Hereby natural-mechanical choreographies of entities arise that seem to move freely within a system of conditions, a dance that excites attraction and tension between each other and the observer. Through immersion, slow engagement and detail I aim to raise the awareness of our own place in the world and relation to other species. As an artist I propose a perspective on technology being subtle, nuanced and fluid, beyond being an efficiency tool or an expression of power, .