SYN.SYN.SYM (2024-25) is a research project that explores the human body as a multispecies site. Medical imaging—as a visual language through which we gain access to the body's microscopic landscapes—and scientific rituals as performative acts of examination serve as entry points for investigating the more-than-human world we inhabit.

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Through fiction as a methodological tool, the appropriation of scientific aesthetics, DIY visual experiments, and performance practices, the project examines the multispecies and complex experience of being human. Working with everyday materials from the urban landscape and performative actions that challenge scientific protocols, it embraces playfulness, improvisation, curiosity, and messiness as alternative modes of inquiry.

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The project advocates for interconnectedness and interdependence between humans and other-than-human (beings, materials, structures) by creating artificial microscopic worlds and speculative imaging samples derived from our surroundings. These alternative modes of examination invite new ways of understanding human nature while questioning institutionalized research processes and established forms of knowledge production.

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