Chloé Azzopardi

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17. 8. 2026

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Non technological devices

An imaginary survival guide that is simultaneously surrealist, conceptual, and post-digital: this is what Non Technological Devices brings to mind. Combining mimetic objects with photographs in which bodies act as “devices,” this corpus reads like a manifesto. In a survivalist world, Chloé Azzopardi suggests approaching modernity in reverse and weaving an anti-discipline, where patching things together takes precedence over engineering. Poetically and ironically, the aim is to engage knowingly with the artificial and draw inspiration from toys and untamed childhood. In the spirit of Michel de Certeau, the artist moves through everyday life with diversions and deception, devising “instruments” that seem useless at first glance but become functional if we allow them to guide us. Confronting imaginary fragility with the ideology of progress, Non Technological Devices invites us to take matters into our own hands and imagine an “analogue culture” in which experience takes precedence over communication.

Text | Michel Poivert for the FOMU

All images: Chloé Azzopardi, Non technological devices, 2023–ongoing

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Chloé Azzopardi

Chloé Azzopardi is a French transdisciplinary artist living on an island on the outskirts of Paris. She works on long-term projects that involve photography, construction, performance, and installation. Her research focuses on ecology, new technologies, and the construction of post-capitalocene imaginaries.  

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Intimate and Raw – Afterglow Revisits the Work of Adam Holý

#4 min Editorial

Intimate and Raw – Afterglow Revisits the Work of Adam Holý

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On Thursday, 3 September, Fotograf Zone will open Afterglow, an exhibition dedicated to the remarkable photographic practice of Adam Holý. Staged ten years after the artist’s death, the exhibition reflects on his lasting impact on Czech photography while repositioning his work within a contemporary context. Bringing together intimate portraits, spontaneous snapshots taken from a moving car, and lesser-known landscape montages, the exhibition offers a compelling encounter with a complex body of work whose images continue to surprise, unsettle, and fascinate.

Editor’s Pics by Tereza Rudolf

#4 min Tereza Rudolf

Editor’s Pics by Tereza Rudolf

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I’m putting this selection together on my phone. Every now and then, I switch to camera mode and try to photograph my children endlessly tunnelling through the sand beneath a beach umbrella. In much the same straightforward way, I’ve chosen a handful of favourite articles and artist profiles connected to themes of travel, tourism, family photography, and borders of all kinds—not just national ones. Consider this a reading and viewing list for journeys, or perhaps about journeys.

Ariella Azoulay – Seeing Genocide: Weaponization of Images

#18 min Ariella Azoulay

Ariella Azoulay – Seeing Genocide: Weaponization of Images

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The essay by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay examines the relationship between images, genocidal violence, and the mechanisms through which it is legitimized. The author challenges the idea of photography as neutral testimony and shows how images can serve not only to document suffering, but also to normalize it, obscure it, or politically justify it. In the text, she connects contemporary images from Gaza with the long history of settler-colonial violence against populations and asks what remains outside the frame of the visible.