Thomas Teurlai's Art Explores Biopolitics Through Disfigured Machine-Bodies

Artist Thomas Teurlai creates sculptures and installations that examine biopolitics and disfigurement as aesthetic responses to contemporary destruction. His works, described as 'visceral mechanisms,' include pieces like 'Fossile Murmure' (2022–24), featuring a non-functional hybrid car displayed at Le Cyclop in Milly-la-Forêt, and 'Moonshine' (2016), a decomposition-based ecosystem shown in Rennes. Teurlai's practice engages with themes of survival, transformation, and resistance to normative systems, drawing on concepts from thinkers like Didier Fassin and Michael Taussig to explore how deterioration can generate new forms of life and connectivity.