Felt Reality
Baku, Yarat Contemporary Art Center Residency, 2018The exhibition questions the limits of perception within a surrounding of rapid change and information overload. Rather than reproducing the culturally constructed dualism between “the cyber” and “physical reality”, between information and logic on the one hand, and feeling and imagination on the other, the works investigate processes of transformation as a whole. Guided by the propositions of speculative aesthetics, the exhibition suggests that political and natural transformations are not separate, but deeply interconnected.
Through installations that combine material and digital registers, the works stage encounters between natural processes and human-made interventions, offering possibilities for coexistence beyond human–nature duality. Stones from Ghobustan, digitally glitched images of prehistoric carvings, urban fragments from Baku, aquatic ecosystems, and concrete-encased natural forms all appear together as active agents, each carrying histories of ecological, cultural, and political transformation.
By bringing these units into relation without hierarchy — geological, biological, urban, and digital — the exhibition resists binary separations and instead gestures toward a culture of respect for things as they are. In doing so, it proposes a vision of independent yet interconnected existences, where natural and cultural forms cohabit, shift, and transform together.