Sophia Kaeser is an interdisciplinary collage artist whose sound and sculpture installations embody metamorphosis in the wake of political restrictions. In their practice, the fusion and distortion inherent to collage functions as a pseudo-surgical process, creating sonically-reanimated sculptural entities from “synthetic” materials like steel and plastic. Through body scanning, heat-forming, and welding processes, the materials are worked into biomorphic forms, living in anxious technological symbiosis – a reality in which human beings find themselves increasingly enveloped. This is a state of existence plagued with hypocrisy; as emergent technologies radically reconceptualize what it means to have a “human body” in the 21st century, the political outcry against change grows only more vehement. For Kaeser, fantasizing the body with “synthetic” materials reclaims bodily autonomy from systems of restraint.