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The Desiring Machines

Place: Galerie Kandlhofer, Vienna

Date: -

Artists: Isabella Fürnkäs, Elias Jocher

Works: The Desiring Machines

Installed in the Blue Room, in the exterior space of Galerie Kandlhofer in Vienna, the works unfold within a threshold between inside and outside, intimacy and exposure. The Desiring Machines (2025) consist of individual mouth-blown ruby-red glass drops filled with ethanol and inscribed with handwritten engravings. Suspended in the open air, the fragile glass bodies respond subtly to light, temperature, and atmosphere, emphasizing their material vulnerability and permeability.
Drawing on Anti-Oedipus by Gilles Deleuze, Fürnkäs examines the body as a site of circulation, production, and desire — a system of flows rather than fixed identities. The drops, at once sensual and mechanical, evoke desiring machines: entities that connect, interrupt, and generate currents. In the blue spatial setting, they appear almost weightless, like condensed thoughts or distilled emotions.

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