With “Blush Machine”, Yannick Harter reflects on the ambivalent relationship between human bodies and the technologies that surround and permeate them. Organic forms collide with cold machine parts. A relationship of mutual inscription is revealed between the reproductions of bones and organs and the radius of movement of a robot arm. At the same time, the objects appear to have been left behind; what remains are indications of a utility, once adapted to our bodies that now seems to be lost. We blush in embarrassment, facing the titans technology has grown into through industrialisation, automation and digitalisation. In the imagination of a speculative present, imprints and negative space become an expression of the absence of the human body, which seems to have disappeared from the production spaces of industrial manufacturing. A glimpse in the long narration that spans human history – from the first archetypal tools to the highly engineered production processes of our present.

— Carlotta Riedelsheimer