Smoke Hands, 2022
Programme informatique interactif (Langage de programmation javascript), NFT
John Gerrard’s project Smoke Hands (Dark), published via the platform Feral File, originated from the artist’s experiments in early 2022 using a smoke image generation algorithm – a recurring iconographic motif in his work. Combining a gesture of offering with one of destruction, Smoke Hands (Dark) conveys the absurdity of our relationship with fossil fuels, based on dependence and self-destruction. The artist sums up this position as follows: “I like the sense that we are holding an uncertain future in our hands — or that we are protecting a global petro system that is in essence doomed to failure”.
Marcella Lista et Philippe Bettinelli, 2023