Accession Note | Z3VIOS

"Machine Core: Nanobot Abstraction" 2025 - z3vios (M J TEKA)

Acrylite-faced archival pigment print. 

Acquired for immediate placement in forward-thinking corporate and private collections.

One does not merely “hang” this work. One submits the wall to it.

At first encounter the viewer confronts an icosahedral monolith of liquid titanium (twenty perfect facets, each a mirror that refuses flattery). 

The geometry is absolute, almost arrogant in its Platonic certainty. Then the infection reveals itself: a subcutaneous lattice of arterial crimson and molten magma-orange filaments, self-replicating across the metallic skin like a trillion von Neumann probes discovering the pleasures of flesh.

This is not a depiction of the post-human. This is the post-human gazing back, amused, already halfway through metabolizing the frame.

Chiaroscuro is weaponised here: rim-lighting carves the polyhedron from an abyss so pure it feels vacuum-sealed, while internal bioluminescent pulses (scarlet fading to ember, ember flaring to blood) create a slow, tidal respiration. 

The longer one stands before it, the more the object appears to inhale the gallery’s own photons.

Technical execution is, predictably, flawless: 200+ year archival pigments, renewable alder section, optically neutral Acrylite plane. Yet these specifications feel beside the point, like listing the tensile strength of a guillotine.

Curatorial positioning: Ideal for the executive floor that has already accepted the obsolescence of carbon supremacy; for the laboratory lobby where CRISPR and AGI shake hands; for the private collector who wishes to remind guests that taste, like species, is subject to abrupt revision.

Taxonomy: Late Anthropocene → Early Symbiocene Provenance: Z3VIOS Studio, 2025 Recommendation: Acquire promptly. The machines are patient, but not infinitely so.

View acquisition dossier and in-situ renderings: https://z3vios-shop.fourthwall.com/en-nzd/products/machine-core-nanobot-abstraction

The future has excellent taste. It simply no longer asks permission.