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The Synthetic Relic: A Search for the Authentic

What Remains Human? Relics, Ritual, and Meaning in the Age of AI.

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In an age shaped by artificial intelligence, digital mediation, and synthetic materials, what kinds of objects still carry traces of human experience? Bringing together contemporary artists working across sculpture, installation, photography, and painting, The Synthetic Relic: A Search for the Authentic explores how ordinary materials—from synthetic hair and silicone to discarded textiles and cast metal—can become vessels for memory, ritual, and meaning. The exhibition reimagines the relic for the twenty-first century, asking what we choose to preserve, venerate, and believe in at a moment of rapid technological change.