Fictions of Overload

By anchoring the reflection at the heart of artistic practices, the issue of post-truth and cognitive saturation can be read through precise plastic and conceptual choices, notably in the work of Madeleine Andersson and Liam Denny.

Madeleine Andersson (Degenerative Knowledge Production) roots her approach in video and narrative research by subverting archives, documentaries, and images found on the internet to fuel a narrative of human intelligence shaped by electricity, thereby materializing how technical systems control and categorize thought to expose the fragility of our cognitive structures.

Meanwhile, Liam Denny (Modern Love) adopts a sculptural approach using materials like silicone and domestic design elements to materialize the impact of these mutations on intimacy, questioning the way bodies and affects are shaped within saturated environments where traditional benchmarks give way to artificial constructions.

Together, their approaches do much more than denounce a climate of informational overload: they dissect the very tools through which our perception of truth and the living is altered.