The Sizzling Future

The first time I saw an artwork by the artist collective Apparatus 22 was in 2023 at Kiosk in Ghent. It was part of the exhibition ‘Oracles — The Life of S.F.’ (curated by Koi Persyn), the second instalment in a series of exhibitions based on a fictional narrative that transposes Sophocles’ tragedies to modern-day Belgium. I was the only visitor at the time. In a largely empty room, on the tiled floor, across a cluster of grate-like sculptures, stood a trio of figures — dark, shroude (…)