Ran Slavin opens Neon Swans Corporations LTD at FOMA in Tel Aviv on October 15, 2026, with a live performance from 8 to 11 p.m. The six-channel audiovisual installation combines synthetic bodies, mechanical anatomy and fractured digital interfaces with an original electronic soundtrack.
A fictional factory that no longer follows instructions
The work imagines a sex-robot factory in Guangdong, China, whose production line begins designing new bodies without waiting for instructions. Its synthetic figures are neither prototypes nor finished products. The factory is part of Slavin’s fictional world, not a real-world news event.
Across six video channels, bodies are assembled, dismantled and transformed. The visual language draws on computer viruses, Chinese phishing emails, web graphics, typography, logos, broken interfaces and glitches. The recurring swan acts as both a corporate emblem and an image of beauty and purity, shifting between animal, commercial logo and synthetic form.
Thirty tracks built from online voices
The soundtrack uses a cappella vocals collected online with their creators’ consent. Thirty tracks, running for almost two hours, reshape those voices into electronic club music that moves through drum and glitch, hyperpop, English rap and ambient bass. The installation sets this sound against bodies that remain recognizably human while continually changing form.
Exhibition dates and events
- October 15: Opening and live performance, 8-11 p.m.
- October 22: Exhibition and installation, 8-11 p.m.
- October 23: Exhibition and installation, 1-4 p.m.
- October 26: Display in the small room and a live performance as part of Pacofest.
- October 30: Exhibition, installation and live performance, 1-4 p.m.
- October 31: Gallery talk at 1 p.m.
- Venue: FOMA, 6 HaTnufa Street, second floor, Kiryat HaMelacha, Tel Aviv.
