Félix Luque La sociedad automática

Near-perfect precision. No hesitation, no fatigue, no loss of focus. Industrial robots embody the mastery of automation. A logic born on the assembly lines of Taylorism that today, hand in hand with artificial intelligence, spilled far beyond the factory floor— into our thinking, our judgement and our memory. Philosopher Bernard Stiegler called it La Société Automatique: every area of existence merged into an invisible network of calculations, with technology quietly shaping our lives from the inside.

Félix Luque Sánchez’s exhibition La Sociedad Automática gives form to that unease: a universe of machines that never falter, never tire, never revolt. Mechanical Sisyphuses locked in purposeless loops, mirroring a present where the human is no longer at the centre. A dystopian present that raises an urgent question: can we still reclaim the technology that governs us?

The work of Felix Luque Sánchez in collaboration with Damien Gernay, Vincent Evrard and Iñigo Bilbao, explores how humans conceive their relationship with technology and provide spaces for reflection on current issues such as the development of artificial intelligence and automatism. Using electronic and digital systems of representation, as well as mechatronic sculptures, generative sound scores, live data feeds and algorithmic processes, he creates narratives in which fiction blends with reality, suggesting possible scenarios of a near future and confronting the viewer with her fears and expectations about what machines can do.