David de Tscharner's 'Humanized' Machines at Galerie Valeria Cetraro

David de Tscharner's exhibition 'Machines « humanisées »' at Galerie Valeria Cetraro in Paris (Nov 30, 2019 – Jan 11, 2020) presents a biomorphic language that hybridizes industrial objects with organic forms, aiming to evoke empathy for machines. The artist draws on Günther Anders' 'The Obsolescence of the Human' (2002), particularly a passage where a dying man wishes to be a replaceable light bulb. De Tscharner reverses this perspective by 'humanizing' machines, using mixed media including magnets, digital collages, laser prints on magnetic paper, plaster, pigments, plexiglass, polyurethane, and polystyrene. Works like 'OK Machine' (2019) incorporate a coffee machine, while 'Katcha Top' uses an electric whisk. The exhibition invites viewer participation through interchangeable parts, reflecting a conceptual shift toward participatory art. De Tscharner describes placing a sculpture on his coffee machine a year ago, which suddenly felt unified, sparking empathy and a desire to explore this contradictory feeling.