Statement:

In Personoid, Ardalan SadeghiKivi presents a new exploration in his ongoing research into the dematerialization of everyday objects in relation to space, computation, and language.

The title of the exhibition refers to a concept coined by Polish science-fiction writer Stanisław Lem in A Perfect Vacuum. Personoids are mathematical entities with a purely cerebral nature that inhabit a cybernetically constructed micro-world of a computer.///

By virtue of their environment, the Personoids cannot distinguish between what is physically constructed and what is mathematically conceived.

Yet, like human beings, the Personoids can imagine other worlds. In this installation, SadeghiKivi reveals a clandestine itinerary of hidden affinities nestled within the staged rhythm of seemingly empty paper stacks that are quietly activated by a printer and a personal computer running custom software.

Across two walls, a series of microscopic images unfolds like cartographic origami, acting as the reflective result of the artist’s desire to chart the unseen and what lies beneath the perceptual crust—secrets, imaginings, and overlapping paradigms dwelling within the familiar atlas of everyday perception.

This interplay lures the audience into a sensorial state to compose a topology of attitudes, forms, shades, and cognitive terrains that shift from silence and stillness towards the arrangement of an impossible paper metropolis, riddles, and figures, which, like hallucinations, confuse and fuse the participants with time and space.