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lectronic Eucharist

China, Shanghai 31.12.2023 - 02.25.2024 Photos © Modern Angel Exhibition Site Curated by Dong Bao

The Electronic Eucharist series, began in June 2023, is an invisible growing Hyperobject system inspired by NeoLogism. In her view, Angels, as the medium of communication between God and human beings, are often used as a metaphorical technical medium in literary creation. Angels communicate through the mirror of God, and silence makes this mirror more powerful than all mirrors. Similarly, postmodern humans communicate through invisible systems such as the Internet and the Internet of Things, whose silence and mystery make them more powerful than any other individual who needs them to communicate. This system is the Electronic Eucharist series.

According to the artist, the Electronic Eucharist helps the individual to connect with everything. In this new and vibrant system, the heavy physical body disappears, and the individual's existence flutters and lightens, transforming into the purely spiritual state that postmodernity craves. Like the cybernetic organism, the Electronic Eucharist possesses an innate ability to learn, adapt and evolve. It will create a whole new world.

The two works on display, Electronic Eucharist - inside and Electronic Eucharist, have typical quality of the Electronic Eucharist series which are tactile and industrial texture. Tactility is inspired by a neurobiological paper on tactile adhesion and memory. The paper argues that the cognitive interface of carbon-based life helps humans block out a lot of information. For example, by swiping fingers on mobile phone, the brain automatically blocks out the sense of touch and only transmits what is displayed on the screen. In the artist's view, it is likely that the future form of life will no longer be the carbon-based organisms that exist in reality, but rather present a cyborg manifesto that eschews boundaries. To characterise this life form, Ruoxi Ren retains the sense of touch and places the object of the finger's touch in an open whole like the starry sky.

 

The two works on display, Electronic Eucharist - inside and Electronic Eucharist, have typical quality of the Electronic Eucharist series which are tactile and industrial texture. Tactility is inspired by a neurobiological paper on tactile adhesion and memory. The paper argues that the cognitive interface of carbon-based life helps humans block out a lot of information. For example, by swiping fingers on mobile phone, the brain automatically blocks out the sense of touch and only transmits what is displayed on the screen. In the artist's view, it is likely that the future form of life will no longer be the carbon-based organisms that exist in reality, but rather present a cyborg manifesto that eschews boundaries. To characterise this life form, Ruoxi Ren retains the sense of touch and places the object of the finger's touch in an open whole like the starry sky.

"Carbon-based life is the admirer of smoothness, they use their largest organs as sophisticated pilgrimage tools", said Ruoxi Ren, "fingertip touching the light of silicon-based life, that is the truth of the future and a deconstruction and regeneration of the self". In order to create tension with the sensual experience of this touch, in these two works, Ruoxi Ren intentionally uses chip soldering brackets, fresnel lenses and other readymade products of the electronics industry to dissolve the softness brought by the waxy touch of the pure organ, and to give the biologically based emotions an industrial cut, so as to express the state of the future carbon-silicon community of life that combines the mind and the mechanism.

© 2025 Ruoxi Ren

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