SWISS-CANADIAN CONCEPTUAL ARTIST
Art about the tools that shape us.
And the presence they cannot fully carry.
NEW WORK · SEPTEMBER 2026
One tower. One shared beginning.
No final image.
An ongoing HTML artwork. Each visit opens onto a construction advancing from the same moment in time.
Enter the work1/1 · View on Networked.artA SELECTION FROM THE PRACTICE
I made this work to explore the distance between making something that resembles us and bringing someone into being. A body takes shape in light. The head remains absent.
Experience the workView on Networked.artThe phone is absent. The light is still leaving. A work about the screen’s last trace inside us, after its content has disappeared.
Experience the workView on Networked.artThe same sentence meets a machine that will not settle. An unnumbered companion to the typed and handwritten diptych.
View the two-panel diptychThe lake holds its form. Everything around it changes. The image and its public inscription are materials of the work.
View provenance · not offered for saleThe alphabetic bars become an environment the body has learned to inhabit. A companion to On the Tyranny of Alphabetic Linearity.
View on Networked.artA stone core becomes an AI processor. Nine seconds hold a long history of tools becoming part of us.
Explore The Engineered FieldFOLLOW A THREAD
The alphabet, the image, and the medium that now answers back.
The Capture02 / PRESENCEBreath, masks, and an encounter that cannot be reduced to a file.
The Gift of Breath03 / LANDA lake, a field, and an atmosphere that changes the work itself.
Land & memoryUPCOMING · LUNA ARTS
Sophie Scholl, George Orwell, and Charlie Chaplin appear as figures of light. Three lives return as reminders of clarity, courage, and resistance in the present.
FORTHCOMING SOLO EXHIBITION
L’alphabet, voleur de pensées
Three works on the tools that enter the mind, and what remains beyond their capture.
WRITING & PUBLICATIONS
Avery Lake on language as a medium that shapes thought, and on the embodied experience it cannot fully carry.
Read the essayABOUT THE PRACTICE
Avery Lake is a Swiss-Canadian interdisciplinary artist and ethicist working across sculpture, installation, moving image, and participatory forms. A background in bioethics and AI ethics grounds a practice concerned with how our tools shape memory, language, identity, and attention.
The work returns to breath, presence, and lived experience: what a medium can point toward but cannot fully contain.
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