The work of ASMA seeks to eliminate the dichotomies between functionalism and decoration, affection and pragmatism, and love and calculation by integrating all these fields in a space that can contain contemporary contradictions. Presented at MOCAD, Wander & Pursuit is inspired by romanticist debates surrounding the artist’s role in the industrial era. In this exhibition, ASMA introduces a semi-functional office customized with organic shapes and nontraditional materials, suggesting the labor space is a cyborg extension of the human body. 

Anchored by a singular installation, the exhibition builds on the concept of ‘Metamodernism’. A new idea within architectural theory that describes the merging of the functional, strategic planning of Modernist design principles with the playful individualism of the Postmodern aesthetic. Keywords for this project, like Metamodernism, Modernism, and Postmodernism, can be defined as philosophical and artistic approaches to human life in interaction with technology. Modernism portrays the era of the factory, mass production of goods, and world wars. Postmodernism depicts the era of technological reproduction of capital, expressed by the financial industries and the globalization of bodies and commodities, and Metamodernism defines the era in which we want human civilization to become more like machines: cyborgs living between physical and cyberspace.