The exhibition “Technofetishism: Whip it into Shape”, hosted in MOMus-Experimental Center for the Arts (Warehouse B1, Pier A’, Port) in Thessaloniki, from 21 March until 31 August 2025, explores the fetishisation of technology by our contemporary techno-capitalist society, which has transformed technological objects into sources of sexual arousal, substitutes for desire, and venerated fetishes. The works presented offer a critical reflection on how technology mediates—and sometimes distorts—our notions of intimacy, eroticism, desire, and communication, our own identity, blurring the boundaries between freedom, compulsion, and constraint.

The exhibition highlights the emerging power and dependency relationships between ourselves and technological media, which have now become extensions of our bodies. These relationships are both evident and inextricably linked to consumption and control. 

The modern exaltation of technology has also exposed contemporary practices of self- and gender-representation, imposing warped ideals and standards of beauty. Through their works, the artists ask: Could we be experiencing the ultimate fulfillment of a technofetishistic society?

And while these may have once seemed like mere peculiar signs of the times, today we are discussing the consequences of this enslavement and seeking ways to coexist with technology—if not to liberate ourselves from it.

Curated by: Eirini Papakostantinou, Art Historian, Curator MOMus-Experimental Center for the Arts

Artists: Maria Antelman, Zisis Bliatkas, Thomas Diafas, Carla Gannis, Maria Glyka, Faith Holland, Kalos&Klio, Casey Kauffmann, Echo Can Luo, Rosa Menkman, Eva Papamargariti, Moises Sanabria in collaboration with Tom Galle and John Yuyi, Super G (George Ouzounis), Theo Triantafyllidis, Anna Vasof, Emilio Vavarella, Vassilis Vlastaras, Maria Vozali