GALERIE DATA, PARIS, FRANCE
— Exploring Post-Natural Wild
26, boulevard Jules Ferry Paris 11
From 27.02 to 15.03
Opening: 27.02 from 6pm to 10pm CET
What happens when organic and synthetic fuse? When life, in all its forms, detaches from its biological origins and begins to transform from technological origins?
Machina Fauna explores a post-natural world where new species emerge from the merging of living and artificial matter. Plants, animals, and machines are no longer separate—part biological, part artificial, they evolve together, shaping vibrant ecologies through their shared influence. Everything is in motion here. Adapting, growing, becoming.
This exhibition invites us to rethink what life is, and what it could become. Intelligence, agency, and adaptation don’t belong to individual species or systems anymore—they emerge from entanglements, from the spaces where everything connects. A seamless ecology of organisms, systems and machines.
Part of the profits will be donated to the association https://wildtomorrow.org/
Curatorial statement
Nature thrives on change. From the first microbes to the most complex ecosystems, life evolves by adapting, mutating and forging new alliances. Today, a new force is redefining this cycle: technology. No longer separate from nature, machines and artificial systems are blending into the living world, evolving alongside plants, animals and people to create unexpected hybrid ecologies.
“Machina Fauna - Exploring Post-Natural Wild” proposes a vision of the future in which the organic and the synthetic enter into a relationship of mutualism and mutation. In her “Cyborg Manifesto” (1985), Donna Haraway denounces the perfection of biological life and proposes the cyborg as a representation of fluid identities - half-human, half-machine, half-fictional. This exhibition extends that vision to the realm of the non-human, where animals, plants and artificial intelligence merge to form new, post-natural beings.
The works presented in “Machina Fauna” offer a glimpse of this future, bringing together 3D printed sculptures, AI-generated images, videos and photographs. Ziyang Wu's “The Song of the Connectors” maps the invisible networks that link biological and technological life, revealing an ever-changing ecology. Frederik De Wilde's “AI Bug_къыч'ызыр” generates digital creatures that exist somewhere between machine error and evolutionary mutation. Viola Rama's “Tender Monsters” fuse human, plant and animal forms, troubling ideas of femininity, the body and transformation. Hypereikon's “🩻⟡⋆🐠˚.⋆🦋🌀” unfolds like a digital dreamscape, where artificial life moves into a fluid, ever-changing existence. Manon Pretto's “Pathogène” transposes these ideas into the physical world, with hybrid installations of mushrooms taking root in the gallery, as if technology itself were learning to grow. Together, these works soften the differences between the organic and the synthetic, showing that the future of nature is neither entirely biological nor entirely artificial, but something in between.
Discovering the “Machina Fauna” exhibition is like opening the door to a cabinet of curiosities of the future, where hybrid species are presented as trophies from another era, relics of an evolution of life where the synthetic has infiltrated natural cycles, a collection of hybrid specimens that mark the era of the post-natural. Just as Renaissance cabinets of curiosity brought together artifacts of the known and the unknown, this exhibition brings together visions of what nature might become. From Bosch's surreal chimeras to twentieth-century cybernetic art, artists have long imagined hybrid forms of life, wondering where the natural ends and the artificial begins. Echoing H.R. Giger's biomechanical surrealism, where flesh and machine are inseparable, these works suggest a world where life is no longer something we simply inherit, but something we create, shape and reimagine.