Indonesian artist Syaura QOTRUNADHA takes her early childhood relationship to water as the starting point of her artwork “Fluidity of Future Machines”, which shares the reflections of an elderly man considering his relationship to water. The narrator begins with a reminder that our bodies are more than 65 percent water, talking us through the relationships between the smallest cells in our bodies and the earth’s ocean water. The visuals of Qotrunadha’s video recall the experience of looking through a microscope, suggesting that the insights of our elders may help us see what is invisible, but right before us. Initially the images appear to be of foreign matter, outside of our bodies, but in watching “Fluidity of Future Machines”, one realizes that they are also looking, in a way, at themselves.
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