Looking Good as the World Falls Apart – alfatih

alfatih envisions spaces and the ways we interact with them. He has collaborated with Circuit in 2021 for the first chapter of the Jardin d’hiver exhibition at MCBA Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne. On this occasion, alfatih came up with a virtual wall. For Looking Good as the World Falls Apart, alfatih takes over CIRCUIT Centre d’art contemporain in an exhibition that materializes, exteriorizes, and spits out the machine’s murmuring belly. If actual animated objects are now crowding the space, alfatih does so with mischief. “I wanted to assemble this space as a system processing its own signals. There’s a certain architecture to how things connect, or fail to. Tension builds between many parts, like sensing a machine's internal hum or feeling disparate elements coalesce. Slow dialogues mark time; autonomous paths pull you closer or guide you away; gestures trigger unseen events, felt only as distant vibrations. To move through it is to become aware of these overlaps and disconnects, perceiving the patterns formed by collision and distance within the operating structure itself.” alfatih lives and works in Switzerland. He has presented installations, interactive and video works in art institutions and art spaces such as MASI Museo d'arte della Svizzera italiana, Lugano; Sentiment, Zurich; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Le Locle; la Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement, Geneva; Swiss Institute, New York (US); Blue Velvet Projects, Zurich; Kora Arts Center, Castrignano (IT); MCBA Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne; Friart Kunsthalle, Fribourg; Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva; HEK Haus der Elektronischen Künste, Basel and CIRCUIT Centre d’art contemporain, Lausanne.