Bare Systems | MUD Gallery Shanghai: Andreas Gysin and Sidi Vanetti

13 September - 18 October 2025


Text in Chinese

 

These works do not rely on excessive ornamentation; instead, they embody core contradictions in their rawest form: the difference between what technology can do and what humans can perceive; the discrepancy between what we think we see and how digital images are actually generated; the gap between the “precision” promised by digital systems and the “blur” of physical reality. These unadorned software and hardware elements, and the transparent creative processes behind them, are not flaws to be hidden. By laying the systems bare—bare both in terms of material minimalism and conceptual clarity—the artists highlight a deeper truth. They remind us that even the simplest technologies carry with them layers of sensory, cultural, and temporal complexity.Transparency, in this context, is a form of richness: the closer we look, the more we discover.