Pashilk’s tech bronze works, created during the mid-1980s and 1990s, meditate on the potentiality of technology to produce new connections while also holding in tension the precarious nature of its socio-cultural implications.
Dealing with the materiality of computers, switchboards, circuits and wires, Pashilk poses conceptual questions through material, composition and form. These post-apocalyptic-like archives probe the re-orientation of the human within this new epoch. Rather than deploying technology as a new tool for artistic expression like many digital photographers, filmmakers and computer artists, Pashilk’s work investigates the mercurial relation between technology and nature through the traditional techniques of sculpture. Through bronze Pashilk has permanently archived the moment in which a new technological epoch emerged. |