/Exhibition/
I’m a Cyborg, but That’s OK
Role: Curator
Artists: Sharon Cheuk Wun LEE, Sherly Fan, Slivia Muleo, Olivia Saporito, Phoebe Quin Kong
Time: 2026/5/8-2026/6/5
Address: Aunty's House, 25 Acorn St, Building 35, Providence, RI
In a cultural framework where the human is often defined through coherence, autonomy, and function, those who diverge from these standards are frequently positioned as lacking or incomplete. Rather than restoring such conditions to a stable notion of the human, I’m a Cyborg, but That’s OK proposes an alternative ethic—one that does not seek repair, correction, or reintegration. Here, the cyborg is not a technological identity but a mode of being that resists normalization. Care replaces cure, and permission emerges not as resolution but as a sustained state of allowance.
The exhibition unfolds without a linear narrative structure. Works exist in states of suspension, repetition, and quiet persistence, forming loosely connected constellations rather than a unified progression. Dreams operate not as escape, but as ongoing internal systems that remain active and self-sustaining. Within this condition, causality loosens, affect flattens, and action no longer points toward clear ends. Figures across multiple media drift toward object-like or machinic states—through stillness, delay, and apparent uselessness—without being framed as failure or deficiency.
Artists articulate distinct yet resonant approaches to this condition. Their works do not attempt to reassert the human as a stable center, but instead inhabit zones of ambiguity where subject and object, animate and inanimate, remain unresolved. What emerges is not a loss of humanity, but a reconfiguration of presence—one that allows opacity, fragmentation, and non-functionality to persist without justification.
I’m a Cyborg, but That’s OK is a low-intensity declaration of existence. It suggests that when human standards falter, and when narratives of recovery or awakening lose their hold, other modes of living continue. Within this space, to remain unresolved, to remain in a dream, is not a problem to be solved, but a condition that is, in itself, enough.
