carlier | gebauer is pleased to announce Absent Touch, the first solo exhibition with the gallery by artist duo Pakui Hardware.

When Neringa Černiauskaitéėand Ugnius Gelguda founded Pakui Hardware in 2014, the body increasingly began to be experienced a post-natural, porous interface. A malleable entity, it revealed itself perpetually reshaped by an interplay of personal transformations, interpersonal relations and structural power mechanisms. Attuned to philosophies such as new materialism, bio-capitalism and necropolitics as well as closely connected to scientific and technological research, their sculptural installations have since then introduced the viewer to ecosystems that intensify emerging sensorial patterns by abstracting the shapes that usually convey them.

Drawing on their recent exploration of prosthetic bodies through digitalization and quantification of health, Pakui Hardware’s first personal exhibition at carlier | gebauer, Berlin opens a new chapter in their research. With Absent Touch, the duo focuses on the recent rise of remote-health-care technologies and services, a phenomenon also known as “virtual care” that encompasses telemedicine, telehealth and robotic surgery.