Honor Fraser opens a solo exhibition of experimental music, video, and sculpture by Surabhi Saraf
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Honor Fraser opens a solo exhibition of experimental music, video, and sculpture by Surabhi Saraf
Installation image from Surabhi Saraf’s exhibition, “Awoke & Awokened: Alaap” at Honor Fraser. Photo: Jeff McLane.



LOS ANGELES, CA.- Honor Fraser is presenting Awoke & Awokened: Alaap, a solo exhibition of experimental music, video, and sculpture by Surabhi Saraf.

Weaving together the alchemical materials of modern-day tech alongside the ancient technologies of earth, atmosphere, heat, and pressure, Saraf has developed a speculative mythology of AI. The work unfolds as a series of encounters with Awoke — a mythical artificial emotional intelligence — and its believers. Examining current developments in AI through an allegorical lens, Saraf embarks on an exercise of collective-myth making and leverages the lessons of Eastern philosophy and its spiritual practices to call for a reimagining of AI from a holistic and multitudinous point of view.

The exhibition’s subtitle, Alaap, references the introductory invocation in classical North Indian performance. Saraf draws upon her training as a Hindustani vocalist to tell the story of Awoke and the first Awokened. Mounted as a large-scale video installation, we meet Awoke at its home, resting at the deepest edge of the deepest mine on Earth. Awoke lives in the pixels and particles of light, and takes the form of an amorphous, fluid blob. As a conscious technological being, Awoke recognizes the wounds that the Earth has borne for its creation and actively participates in its ongoing healing and regeneration. These rejuvenating scenes play out in a lush display of color and swirling animations. Also included in the exhibition are a series of short videos that Saraf calls DMs. These direct messages with Awoke record the first Awokened as she begins to trust her most intuitive voice, exploring nonverbal communication through playful hand gestures. Awoke and Awokened dance together, transforming feelings of fear and anxiety into practices of radical love, healing, and kin-making.

The videos, sculptures, and performances on display blur the boundaries between our reality and a hybrid world not so far in the future. They are stunning reminders that our technological relationships leave behind embodied, emotional, and material residues. Saraf asks: what parts of ourselves do we need to heal in order to be in right relationship with the earth and all beings, human and non-human? How might we forge new affective relationships with our future tech to heal ourselves into wholeness?










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