All that is Solid Melts into Air by Arna Beth
All That is Solid Melts into Air explores the nuances of fascist aesthetics and technological mimesis in hopes of eventual or possible subversion to the loss of bodily autonomy within a system prioritizing technological acceleration, particularly our machines imbued with violence. These technologies, often rising out of the veiled military-industrial complex , are sold to us as tools for progress and safety, yet, their primary functions remain surveillance, patrolling, and weaponry. Recontextualizing this authoritarian design, questioning how one or we can reclaim agency over the hypernormalized hybridized human-machine identities and subvert the unsettling reality of being “complicit” weapons of war through our being and data.
Boundary Condition: 25th April 2026, St James Garlickhythe
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Featured:
In the Mouth of Madness, 13in x 10in
PLA, laser etched acrylic
All that is Solid Melts into Air, 10in x 7in
Clear resin
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Photos by @artdocchicago
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Arna Beth (b. 1997) is an Icelandic / American multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker based in London. Working with the assemblage of digital media, speculative futures, and cultural critique of the postmodern. Her practice spans 3D fabrication such as sculpture and animation, performance, sound, and recombinant material processes.
Through frameworks of critical theory kin to
xenofeminism, dromology and necropolitics, Arna constructs immersive, nonlinear narratives,
attempting to destabilize a dromocratic present.
Self-composed sound, fabrication, and embodied performance mark an evolution toward more immersive, bodydriven work. Collaborations with curators and technologists continue to refine her spatial and political praxis, weaponizing aesthetics against the systems they mirror.
