Before The Machine Forgets — Avigail Gutfeld

I’m a scenic and spatial designer creating concept-driven, emotionally resonant environments through poetic, interdisciplinary, and research-led design. My process is rooted in close collaboration and sensitivity to narrative across formats.

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BEFORE THE MACHINE FORGETS

[Year]: 2026 | Unrealized

[Medium]: Exhibition | Conceptual Design

Before the Machine Forgets brings together Jonathan Keep and Ryuichi Sakamoto through clay, code, sound, and memory. Across both practices, technology does not erase craft; it slows it, fragments it, and returns it altered, but still recognizable.

The exhibition unfolds as a sedimentary landscape, where marks, forms, sounds, and memories gather in layers. Keep’s algorithmic drawings and ceramic vessels meet Sakamoto’s piano and digital atmospheres in a spatial journey from surface to depth. Visitors move through strata of perception, encountering the human gesture as something fragile, persistent, and still present just before it fades.