Antoine Félix Bürcher's 'Ghost in the Shell' Sculptures at Grand Palais Bern

At Grand Palais Bern, Antoine Félix Bürcher presents an exhibition featuring two sculptures that fuse obsolete computer casings with melted glass, evoking a future ecosystem where technology and nature merge. The works, titled after the anime 'Ghost in the Shell', explore nonlinear temporality and the materiality of glass as a nonequilibrium substance. Curator Kate Whitebread's text contextualizes the pieces within discourses on deep time, technological obsolescence, and the 'crisis of linearity' theorized by Vilém Flusser in the 1980s. Bürcher collects used glass from everyday contexts, recycling it into amorphous forms that reference layers of memory. The sculptures are placed in water basins, with water circulating continuously, highlighting erosion and flux. The exhibition invites reflection on time as relational and dependent on scale, contrasting rapid technological change with geological slowness.