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The St.Gallen-based artist Aramis Navarro (*1991 in Zurich, Switzerland) plays with language, images, words, and texts while also drawing on language-based technologies. His kaleidoscopic oeuvre defies classification, characterised by a playful energy that manifests in the formal diversity of his works. From sound sculptures and paintings to spatial installations and the use of artificial intelligence, Navarro's artistic universe knows no boundaries.

For his largest solo exhibition to date, the artist will create new works that specifically engage with the architectural context of the Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen. He explores algorithms as contemporary oracles and magical formulae. As internet technologies blur with concepts of magic and ritual, the digital realm emerges as a new site of transcendence. Is this the birth of a cyber divinity? The exhibition examines the growing entanglement of science and myth, caricaturing the trajectory from human creator to algorithmic omnipotence. Through artistic means, the solo show comments on a pressing issue of contemporary history—perhaps even opening up new (redemptive?) perspectives.

The exhibition by Aramis Navarro is supported by Jubiläumsstiftung der Schweizerischen Mobiliar Genossenschaft, Ernst Göhner Stiftung, Stiftung für Ostschweizer Kunstschaffen, E. Fritz und Yvonne Hoffmann Stiftung and Dr. Georg und Josi Guggenheim Stiftung.