The artist, filmmaker and researcher reflects on her approach to computational capitalism and the new modes of subjectivation it produces. In her films, she immerses herself in digital communities. Her first documentary film, La mécanique des fluides (The Mechanics of Fluids), is an investigation that takes as its starting point a suicide note posted by an incel (an involuntary celibate) on the Reddit platform entitled "America is responsible for my death". The investigation takes the form of a virtual drift across the internet in search of his digital traces. In the second part of the trilogy, For Here Am I Sitting in a Tin Can Far Above the World (2024), a woman dreams of a future economic crisis affecting the cryptocurrency market, while thousands of people have been cryogenically frozen, waiting for better times... In the final instalment, +10k (2025), we follow Pol, 21, who dreams of living in Miami and earning +10k a month. He attends personal development events, follows online coaches and invests in cryptocurrencies. 
 

The discussion will be moderated by Audrey Illouz, cultural programming manager, and Caroline Rambaud, an artist who graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2025.

Gala Hernández López develops an interdisciplinary practice that combines filmmaking with the creation of video installations, performances and publications. More specifically, her work critically analyses the new modes of subjectivation produced by computational capitalism. She examines the imaginaries that circulate in virtual communities, the desires and futures conveyed by disruptive technologies, and the new reactionary techno-utopias as shared fictions that populate our collective unconscious. Her works are research-based and combine materialist analysis with poetry, intimacy and dreams in order to dissect fantasies of unlimited technoscientific control over reality. His work has been presented at international festivals and institutions such as Cannes, the Berlinale, DOK Leipzig, IDFA, Cinéma du Réel, Curtas Vila do Conde, IndieLisboa, Berlinische Galerie, Palais de Tokyo, Sarajevo Film Festival, Vancouver Film Festival, Tabakalera, transmediale, Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Camden Film Festival, FRAC Île-de-France, among others. Her film La Mécanique des fluides won the César Award for Best Documentary Short Film in 2024. She regularly leads workshops, gives lectures and teaches at venues such as the Beaux-Arts de Marseille, BAU College of Arts and Design of Barcelona, Freïe Universität, The Photographers Gallery, Locarno Film Festival, Harvard University, Goldsmiths University, University of British Columbia and University of Michigan.

Photo credits: © Julia Hendrickson