What happens when the answers we are looking for, particularly about our own bodies, are easier to seek from a machine than from another human being?

Drawing from her personal experiences navigating healthcare systems, Kenyan interdisciplinary artist Jordan Rita Seruya Awori (JRSA) brings together medical imagery, fragments of conversations with ChatGPT and hand-stitched textiles to explore the increasingly complicated relationship between technology, healthcare and care itself.

The installation consists of two suspended pieces of cheesecloth carrying questions, responses and fragments of information, some visible, others obscured. Through these layered materials, JRSA considers the vulnerability involved in seeking answers, the reassurance technology can offer and the limits of that reassurance.

The work also reflects on the changing relationship between human interaction and artificial intelligence, particularly in moments when individuals seek understanding, reassurance or care. By bringing together the physical intimacy of textiles and stitching with the impersonal nature of digital exchanges, JRSA examines the tensions between technological assistance and human connection.

As JRSA puts it:

“There is, of course, something rather absurd about turning to artificial intelligence for a little human understanding. Yet here we are.”

Photography: © Jana Hartman

Care Machines • Vulnerable Systems

Group exhibition · AtelierFrankfurt, Frankfurt am Main

Dates: 4 September – 8 October 2026

Participating artists: Jordan Rita Seruya Awori, Maja Smrekar, Superflux and Venera Kazarova.

Organised by: Frauenreferat Frankfurt, in cooperation with Take care! – Festival of Solidarity and Resistance.

Curated by: Jana Hartmann, Heike Sütter and Corinna Bimboese

The exhibition explored care, artificial intelligence, empathy and responsibility in an increasingly technologically mediated society.