Are we ready to see computers outlast us? When do we, our conscious identity, stop and our devices begin? We are obsessed with immortality, but also nostalgia1. Can obsolete technologies haunt us back? We assimilate into technology daily and trivially: doom scrolling on a fridge or watching Netflix on your car's infotainment. Working around trans-feminist theory, Cari explores the implications technology and capitalist acceleration have for our bodies, identities, habitat, and non-human co-habitants.
Consumer refrigerators become a cryogenic force regaining a new standing outside the home. Forming a small herd of human-scaled fridges, they are inspired by recurrent fabulations of immortality elixirs, fountains of youth, and cryogenically preserved brains. Cari has questioned the bio-availability of information in our teeth: as the final part of a body to decompose, they represent a signifier of one’s life: frozen (bio)capital.
1 Grafton Tanner, Foreverism (John Wiley & Sons, 2023).
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Credits: Curator- Julia Geerlings and BEAR Fine Art; Photographer- Django van Ardenne