Agnes Questionmark’s Nexaris Suite at Tenuta Dello Scompiglio

Agnes Questionmark’s Nexaris Suite, curated by Angel Moya Garcia at Tenuta Dello Scompiglio, is not just an exhibition; it’s a visceral experience that forces visitors to confront the evolving interplay between technology, identity, and power. Running until 13 April 2025, this ambitious showcase delves into the biopolitical tensions of a society grappling with hybridity and surveillance.

The central metaphor of the Nexaris Suite is as unnerving as it is evocative. In a sterile, hybridised surgical suite, the human body is reduced to a series of data points, manipulated under the omnipotent gaze of medical machinery. Questionmark interrogates this clinical invasion with her signature intensity, posing the provocative question: What happens when the eyes, once the tools of resistance, become the site of domination? Her work challenges the very act of seeing—who sees, who is seen, and who holds the power within this exchange.

At the heart of the exhibition lies a three-channel video installation, a haunting meditation on the eye as both a window and a battlefield. It frames the viewer as both the observer and the observed, a dynamic underscored by the environmental installation that transforms the gallery into a space of confrontation and introspection. The artist’s interpretation of the eye as a “mirror threshold” deftly complicates Michel Foucault’s theories of visibility and surveillance, suggesting a future where self-awareness becomes a form of rebellion.

Drawing from thinkers like Donna Haraway and Paul B. Preciado, Questionmark builds on the idea of the “trans body” as transspecies, transgender, and transhuman. This fluid, ever-evolving body emerges as a site of resistance against patriarchal biopolitics, offering new possibilities for identity and existence. Her vision—a blend of utopia and dystopia—forces viewers to question their complicity in systems of control and to imagine alternate futures.

What elevates Nexaris Suite is its profound ability to balance the clinical with the poetic. The stark mechanisation of the surgical suite contrasts with the delicate symbolism of the eyes, underscoring the tension between human agency and technological domination. It is this tension that lingers long after leaving the exhibition, urging viewers to reconsider their own relationship with surveillance and control.

Agnes Questionmark’s exhibition is a compelling confrontation with the future of humanity and its relationship with the machine. In the face of such powerful critique, Nexaris Suite is more than timely; it’s essential. A must-see for anyone ready to explore the boundaries of identity, technology, and the politics of visibility.

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Article by @danieleverse

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