Junkspace
BY CHLOE KARNEZI
A frayed YAMAHA motorcycle seat; a NESTLÉ-embossed bin; a flock of batteries bearing the FUJITSU and ENERGIZER logos; a fragment of an unidentifiable object still carrying the BOSCH logo. These are the material residents of “Junkspace”.
“Junkspace” explores the liminal space where waste objects reside. It takes inspiration from a quote by author John Scanlan, who writes that “garbage is what remains [of an object] when the good, fruitful, valuable, nourishing and useful has been taken.” I examine waste as a failure of the imagination. If garbage starts where usefulness ends, it is up to each of us to reimagine use cases for objects, thus prolonging their life cycle and postponing their transformation into waste.
In the video, these thoughts are put into words in the form of a poem, recited by a disembodied voice that is as ghostly and free-floating as the objects depicted.
Using photogrammetry, Chloe has scanned and documented discarded objects encountered on the streets of her hometown of Athens, Greece. After scraping them off the concrete sidewalks of the physical world, she tossed them into digital space. There, imagination is queen. New sculptural assemblages emerge. What was once conceived of as dismissed, worn out, or torn apart gets to have another life in another realm.
ABOUT CHLOE
Chloe Karnezi is a Greek-British computational artist and creative writer based in Athens. Born in Southampton in 1996, her work explores the intersection of technology, decay, and speculative futures. A member of the hybrid art collective TRANSMODERNA, she collaborates with visual and sound artists to investigate the evolving relationship between electronic music and new media art.
In her solo practice, Chloe adopts the speculative lens of a future archaeologist, using photogrammetry and 3D scanning to document and transform the remnants of the Anthropocene. Working primarily in Blender, she reconstructs e-waste and deteriorating objects into digital assemblages that hover between dystopia and dreamscape. Her work questions the permanence of materials, the aesthetics of obsolescence, and the role of imagination in navigating environmental collapse.
Chloe holds a Master’s degree in Computational Arts from Goldsmiths, University of London, and a BA in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Exeter. Her practice merges digital experimentation with literary sensitivity, forging visual worlds that are both critical and deeply poetic.