“Natura Posthuma” — Optical Fiber Nest by Fabio Weik, 2025 Optical-fiber kamikaze drones are employed in warfare to transmit data and deliver destructive attacks with bombs. Yet, the remote-control signals are often disrupted. The thin cables that connect them—stretching over 30 kilometers—are frequently scattered across fields, eventually becoming entangled with the natural landscape. Some birds, unaware of their origin, use these remnants to build their nests. A relic of death, serving as protection for life. The result is a hybrid form that exposes the short circuit between nature and war, life and pollution. It belongs to an archaeology of the present, where technological debris is not merely a trace but a living substance infiltrating the biological cycle. It materializes the notion of post-nature, in which the organic and the inorganic collapse into a single form.
FABIO WEIK 