Vernissage: Vernissage: André Magaña. sunsetting, Stadt Bern

Details: Ausstellung: 29.05. - 05.07.2026

The works in this exhibition make use of and respond to a series of now-obsolete smart technologies that I’ve been tasked to maintain in the past. As a function of my studio practice, these works are inscribed with countless hours invested into W2 and 1099 work that I’ve used to support myself as an artist living in New York.

In lieu of metabolizing this time as time lost from the studio, I’ve invested in transposing it onto the studio (or vice versa).

At the same time, this exhibition is a demonstration of some instances that I’ve personally encountered of what I would call pre-obsolescence. This is another way of saying these technologies were ‘doomed to fail’. Together, the works demonstrate a technological and material threshold that exposes the limits of infinite growth.