The critical installation soft image, Brittle Grounds illuminates digital inequalities!
The critical installation soft image, Brittle Grounds illuminates digital inequalities!
Viale Emilio Alemagna 6, 20121 Mailand, Italien - Austria is at the 24. International exhibition of the Triennale Milano represented by the innovative artist Felix Lenz. With his mixed media installation "Soft Image, Brittle Grounds", which is commissioned by the MAK and supported by the Federal Ministry of Art, Culture, Public Service and Sport, Lenz creates an urgent examination of the invisible infrastructures of digital technologies and their ecological and social consequences. The exhibition, which takes place from May 13th to November 9th, 2025, presents a visually and acoustically impressive essay film and a three-channel video installation that illuminates the interdependencies of technology, ecology, power and inequality.
The focus of the installation is the essay film "Brute Force [Exhibition Cut]", which shows urgent pictures of salt twigs and data centers and addresses the complex relationships between data extraction, resource use and environmental destruction. The dwindling banks of Great Salt Lake in Utah, a symbol for the destructive effects of neocolonial practices and climate upheavals, serve as a central metaphor for the critical examination of the outstanding issues of the exhibition. Lenz explains how technological progress seems to propagate equality, while in truth they result in profound inequalities and the erosion of communities and landscapes.
creative linking of art and science
With his interdisciplinary approach, Lenz combines elements from art, science and social theories to critically question technologies. The installation "Valley of the Heart’s Delight", which throws his parsley at a queer perspective, calls on visitors to recognize the hidden dimensions of technological surveillance and control. The geology of the data age is interpreted in a poetic manner and leads to an interactive experience that appeals both emotionally and intellectually. These topics are presented in the context of the MAK exhibition "Water Pressure: Designing for the Future", which will be shown in the MAK from May 21 to September 7, 2025.| Details | |
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| Ort | Viale Emilio Alemagna 6, 20121 Mailand, Italien |
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