What occurs when organic decay intertwines with technological advancements, and how does the process reshape our perceptions of lore and matter? In what ways might these transformations manifest as new forms of embellishment?
krØmæ§piritⱫ is a presentation of new artworks by Fyerool Darma at Yeo Workshop. The presentation combines found industrial materials with stock photos—pre-existing, commercially available images—and generative images, which are created through algorithms or AI processes, seamlessly integrated with sonar vibrations. Creating vivid and geometric forms that threads into tropes of expiration, decay, and emergent materials. The works drift between technorganic landscapes, warping a sense of mythdrift—a transformation where traditional myths are reimagined as parafictions, blurring the line between lore, organic forms, handcrafted, and manufactured aesthetics. These narratives, like data in flux, are constantly rewoven with emergent technologies, creating new, ambiguous forms.
Centered on a time-lapse of a plant undergoing cycles of deterioration and revitalization, permutations of sonar vibrations between a Nightjar—a bird native to Southeast Asia—and a sentient pantunist (or ancient programmer) are translated into objects oscillating between painting, sculpture, talismanic relief, printed circuit board, and map—each acting as a portal or gate, appearing to safeguard, sanctify, repel, frame, or decorate an interior. Assembling an interplay between sound, matter, and movement, this vibration suggests not a dialogue, but a generative process where sound acts as the unseen and a medium of transformation.
krØmæ§piritⱫ invites reflection on the transient nature of creation shaped by both organic and technology. It offers a meditation on cycles of creation and collapse, where views on technology, history, matter, and lore coexist in constant discordance and transformation, while continuously mirroring one another.
When natural and digital boundaries blur, do digitised myths retain their meaning, or do they generate new realities? What knots or trimmings do the industrial materials that reshape our relationship to nature and history divulge? Do these works protect, demystify or contend with the spaces they are staged in? Eventually, what are the shifting perceptions of matter, lore, history, and art?
