Hyperhighways
«Hyperhighways» is a series of conceptual works centered on highway signage, automation, and machine vision. At the center of the gallery, Reflective Automation—a mirrored urban device—confronts visitors with their own image, enclosed by fluorescent geometric frames. The overwhelming accumulation of these motifs evokes the aesthetics of machine vision systems used in autonomous vehicles and suggests a potential evolution of urban signage. Surrounding it, highway panels—stripped of their utilitarian context and subtly altered—are reimagined as reflective objects. Familiar signs, QR codes, CAPTCHAs, and pictograms are rendered ambiguous, highlighting the growing tension between humans and automation and envisioning a future where road signage serves both vehicles and drivers. The series is completed by a generative video that stages these panels along an endless road strangely lacking humans—an uncanny vision of coexistence between people and machines. Each piece emerges from custom software, with outputs carefully curated and refined to highlight their evocative potential.
By shifting these elements from the road to the exhibition space, Fragmentin invites reflection—sometimes with humor—on direction, control and the infrastructures that shape our shared environments.
