Are you human enough: :mentalKILINIK

This solo exhibition of :mentalKLINIK explores the tension between mechanical processes and manual sabotage — between industrial plotting and smudged ink.

Visitors are welcomed by Viola — a hybrid figure: part digital construct, part embodied memory. On screen, she delivers a delirious monologue, from the duo’s signature “contempoetry”, whispering, shouting, and looping a scrambled, senseless language that nonetheless echoes fragments of familiar lexicons, emotional tones, and collective anxieties.

The exhibition unfolds into a 360-degree installation of polished mirrored aluminium panels titled LIKEWISE (2025), where multiple layers of wet ink are altered through hand gestures, disrupting the slickness of UV printing, introducing friction, residue, and vulnerability.

ARE YOU HUMAN ENOUGH ultimately asks where agency resides when gestures are both physical and programmed, and whether humanity is defined by control, presence, or by how far it is willing to merge with the systems it creates.