Winner 2023

CHLOÉ MILOS AZZOPARDI

“Non Technological Devices ”

Chloe Milos Azzopardi

France

Chloé Milos Azzopardi (1994), is a visual artist living on an island in the outskirts of Paris.
She works on long term projects mixing photography, performance and installation. At the intersection of experimental and documentary photography, her images generate fictional worlds, whose strangeness and sensoriality are exacerbated. Her research revolves around ecology, new technologies and the construction of post-capitalocene imaginaries.

She was recently awarded the prize "New writings of environnemental photography" at La Gacilly Festival, the Lucie Foundation's Emerging Artist grant and was resident at Villa Perochon during the encounters of young international photography with Joan Fontcuberta.
Her work has been published in magazines such as NYTimes, British Journal of Photography, Fisheye or Ignant, and was exhibited at PhMuseum, Łódź Fotofestiwal, Encontros da Imagem, Fisheye Gallery, Athens Photo Festival, Krakow Photomonth.

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Non Technological Devices

In this series, Chloe Milos Azzopardi proposes a universe composed of futuristic objects, composite tools stemming from gleaned natural elements, assembled so as to mimic the technological artifices that populate our daily life. Between rudimentary productions and science fiction creations, these artifacts hold out a mirror to our fantasies of the future. With this series, the artist begins a reflection on our imaginary : how to make us see an alternative future in the face of our dreams of a hyper-artificialized and technologized world? With the help of fiction and play, Azzopardi seeks other ways to imagine the augmented lives, she creates organic cyborgs whose goal would be to inscribe the body differently in the environment. She uses the shift and the poetic detour of artefacts symbols of the technical progress to question our relationship to the living and to the disappearance of the earthly "resources" used to build the components of our technological objects.

The artist wishes to create new desires, to generate images that can be resources for our imaginations. This is how VR headset, satellite antennas, exoskeletons and invented poetic artifacts, whose use remains to be imagined, come together.

"Non technological devices" was exhibited at Villa Pérochon during the Encounters of Young International Photography, curated by Joan Fontcuberta and Chloe Milos Azzopardi.